Saturday, April 19, 2014

1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 13 - Kshetra Kshetrajna Yoga - Sloka 29

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

Does karma drop out of a brahma jnani? The answer comes - 

Karma Pertains to Prakriti 29-30
Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 13 - Kshetra Kshetrajna Yoga - Sloka 29

Narada saving Kayatu -  Prahlada's mother

Prakrutyaiva cha karmani kriyamanani sarvashah I
Yah pashyati tatha atmanam akartaram sah pashyati II sloka 29
प्रकृत्यैव  च कर्मणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः I
यः पश्यति तथा आत्मानां अकर्तारं सः पश्यति II श्लोक 29 

He verily sees, who sees that all actions are done by Prakriti alone and likewise that the atman or self is not the doer, he sees indeed.

When he perceives that "all acts are performed by the prakriti" in the manner previously stateed in "Prakriti is said to be the cause of agency to the body and sense-organs" (13.20) and perceives also that "the self, being of the form of knowledge is not the doer", and that the self's conjunction with the prakriti. Its direction of the body and its experiences of happiness and misery are the result of ignorance of the nature of karma - then indeed he perceives the pure self 

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