Ramanuja's Gita Bhashyam - Chapter 3 - Karma Yoga - sloka 26

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja Gita Bhashya, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

What the spiritual aspirant must do - sloka 19-26

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 3 -Karma Yoga - Sloka 26

Vidura & Maitreyar

Na buddhi bhedam janayet agyanam karma sanginam I

Joshyet sarva karmani vidvan yuktah samacharan II sloka 26

न बुद्धि भेदं जनयेत अज्ञानां कर्म संगिनां ।

जोष्येत सर्व कर्माणि विद्वान युक्तः समाचरन  ।। श्लोक २६ 

He should not bewilder the minds of the ignorant who are attached to work; rather himself performing work with devotion, he should cause others to do so. 

Do not bewilder the minds of the ignorant aspirants by saying that there is, besides karma yoga, another way to the vision of the self. They cannot practise jnana yoga on account of their incomplete knowledge of the self, and attachment to action. They are qualified for karma yoga because of their being fit only for activity on account of the subtle impressions of their beginningless karma. What then follows from this? It is this: Even though one is qualified for jnana yoga because of the complete knowledge of the self, one should do work, holding the view as said previously, that karma yoga by itself without jnana yoga is an independent means for the vision of the self. He should then generate love for all types of activity among those who do not know the complete truth.