1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 18 - Moksha Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 11

The entire content of this mail is from Shri V N Gopala Desikan's  Srimad Bhagavad Gita, published by Vishishtadvaita Research Centre, Chennai and The Bhagavad Gita by Swami Chidbhavananda published by Ramakrishna Mission

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1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 18 - Moksha Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 11

Antaryami in Every creation

Na hi deha bhruta shakyam tyaktum karmani asheshatah I

Yah tu karma phala tyagi sah tyagi iti abhidhayate II sloka 11

न हि देह भृत शक्यं त्यक्तुं कर्मणि अशेषतः I 

यः तु कर्म फल त्यागी सः त्यागी इति अभिदायते II  श्लोक 11

It is indeed impossible for an embodied being to renounce action entirely. But he renounces the fruit of action is regarded as one who has renounced.

There are several points of similarity between the bodily existence and a flight in an aeroplane. One is called a jivatman as long as one is embodied; this one is a godward pilgrim. Another one is called a passenger as long as he is flying. Bodily existence is renounced permanently by the jivatman on the attainment of moksham. The plane is vacated only on reaching the destination. Conditions while in the body are all alike while those in the plane, which flies over plains, hills, dales etc. Bodily existence has its pleasant and unpleasant aspects and its ups and downs The plane does not stop its work while in flight lest it should crash. Bodily activities also cannot be suspended by the  embodied.

Karma takes place as long as the body lasts. Breathing, eating, sleeping - all these are bodily activities going on ceaselessly. Obligatory duties also have to be executed relentlessly. The prudent man has his profitable way of getting his work done. While in the plane if the passenger gets worried about the possible dangers and risks in flying, he defeats himself and the purpose of his flight. He does not improve matters by worrying himself; rather he loses stamina. Instead if he resigns to those eventualities, to the vrew and Providence and if he engages himself in his higher pursuits, he stands to gain. His conducting himself in this way amounts to renouncing the fruit of his flight, but not the flight itself. man should engage hismelf in earthly duties that fall to his lot. He ought not to be concerned with the consequences of his duties. While doing his duties, if he keeps his mind fixed on the Maker, his gain is immense and he is one who has truly renounced.

A man's body gets hurt accidentally. He neither weeps over or neglects it. He bandages the wound and gives all attention to it. If need be money is spent for the cure. But in the midst of all these activities, there is no attachment whatsoever to the wound that has come about. It is attended to so that it may be healed. That man who gets the wound treated is the one who has renounced  it but not he who neglects it to the point of its becoming septic. Bodily activities are like the wound. They can not be neglected. They ought to be carried on with complete detachment. He who does so has really renounced karma and everything worldly. 

And how about the man who is attached to life and karma? The answer comes.