तस्मादसक्त: सततं कार्यं कर्म समाचर | असक्तो ह्याचरन्कर्म परमाप्नोति पूरुष: || 19|| |
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“Therefore, giving up attachment, perform action as a duty. By working without being attached to the fruits, one attains the Supreme.”
Commentary
By performing material and spiritual duties without attachment to the results, a devotee attains union with God. Lord Krishna reiterates often about the importance of working without attachment and desire which are the natural states of individual existence. The cause of man’s birth itself is because of desire – the singular need to experience the comforts and luxuries of the senses in a material body. As man becomes older, the same senses which have driven him restlessly during his active life, begin to fade and lose their powers. The man who enters in his seventies and eighties can feel clearly that the powers of his senses, as well as activities are diminishing gradually. Ultimately, all the senses have fooled him in the game of Maya, in which he has staked his personal hopes, dreams, possessions and all his happiness to the whims of the senses. He either realizes too late or remains ignorant. Either way he is going to come back to play the game again for as long as he wants or win it once and for all.
We have the right to only work but the fruits of work are decided by the Law of Karma that keeps a watch over all our incarnations. In every pursuit, instead of thinking, ‘what if I fail’, ‘what if I am rejected’, ‘am I good enough’, ‘I wish this happens’, ‘what will happen tomorrow?’, it is wiser to think, ‘what are the consequences if I do this?’, ‘will the results bring well-being to me and everyone I love’, ‘so I will do my best right now without any excuse to complete this duty for my Creator’. Imagine the freedom of doing the best you can right now without worrying about the results. Every human can make such powerful resolutions to train the mind and senses to act without attachment and personal desire.
We have the right to only work but the fruits of work are decided by the Law of Karma that keeps a watch over all our incarnations. In every pursuit, instead of thinking, ‘what if I fail’, ‘what if I am rejected’, ‘am I good enough’, ‘I wish this happens’, ‘what will happen tomorrow?’, it is wiser to think, ‘what are the consequences if I do this?’, ‘will the results bring well-being to me and everyone I love’, ‘so I will do my best right now without any excuse to complete this duty for my Creator’. Imagine the freedom of doing the best you can right now without worrying about the results. Every human can make such powerful resolutions to train the mind and senses to act without attachment and personal desire.