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ततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व नैवं पापमवाप्स्यसि || 38||
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BG 2.38:Fight for the sake of duty, treating alike happiness and distress, loss and gain, victory and defeat. Fulfilling your responsibility in this way, you will never incur sin.
commentary:Having motivated Arjun from the mundane level, Shree Krishna now moves deeper into the science of work. Arjun had expressed his fear that by killing his enemies he would incur sin. Shree Krishna addresses this apprehension. He advises Arjun to do his duty, without attachment to the fruits of his actions. Such an attitude to work will release him from any sinful reactions.
When we work with selfish motives, we create karmas, which bring about their subsequent karmic reactions. The Māṭhar Śhruti states:
puṇyena puṇya lokaṁ nayati pāpena pāpamubhābhyāmeva manuṣhyalokam [v34]
“If you do good deeds, you will go to the celestial abodes; if you do bad deeds, you will go to the nether regions; if you do a mixture of both, you will come back to the planet Earth.” In either case, we get bound by the reactions of our karmas. Thus, mundane good deeds are also binding. They result in material rewards, which add to the stockpile of our karmas and thicken the illusion that there is happiness in the world.
However, if we give up selfish motives, then our actions no longer create any karmic reactions. For example, murder is a sin, and the judicial law of every country of the world declares it to be a punishable offence. But if a policeman in the discharge of his duty kills the leader of a gang of bandits, he is not punished for it. If a soldier kills an enemy soldier in battle, he is not punished for it. In fact, he can even be awarded a medal for bravery. The reason for apparent lack of punishment is that these actions are not motivated by any ill-will or personal motive; they are performed as a matter of duty to the country. God’s law is quite similar. If one gives up all selfish motives and works merely for the sake of duty toward the Supreme, such work does not create any karmic reactions.
So Shree Krishna advises Arjun to become detached from outcomes and simply focus on doing his duty. When he fights with the attitude of equanimity, treating victory and defeat, pleasure and pain as the same, then despite killing his enemies, he will never incur sin. This subject is also repeated later in the Bhagavad Gita, in verse 5.10: “Just as a lotus leaf is untouched by water, those who dedicate all their actions to God, abandoning all attachment, remain untouched by sin.”
Having declared a profound conclusion about work without attachment, Shree Krishna now says that he will explain the science of work in detail, to reveal the logic behind what he has said.
Radha ki bhakti,
Murli ki mithas,
makhan ka swaad aur gopiya ka raas inhi sabse milkebanth hai
janmastham ka ye din khas.
Lord krishna in my niche
Here is Krishna chariot to Arjuna in the Kurukshetra_War in my niche..this sculpture was created by some people in front of my house !!!! Years back........some vendors came roaming in the streets of the city..they used to create sculptures of God and Goddesses, birds and other things using olden kitchen pots or any metal...they used to melt the metal in newly created furnaces with coal in the hole dug on the roadside and with the help of several molds they stacked in their big rag bags. Yes they came and destroyed the heritage of olden big traditional vessels of people .....i was also caught trapped and they sculptured this one for me! with my old TV antenna...
OH! i love this niche
this is another one with molten aluminium pan! Yes not the same as the previous sculpture!!! Just examine the legs of horses!!!! and see the difference!!!!!!!!
this one is the same as its previous one.............
Here i took the photo on navy blue velvet!
this photo is on maroon silk!!!!
O LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!O KRISHNA!KRISHNA!!!!!!!!!KRISHNA!!!!!!!!! I PRAY YOU !!!!!!!!DO GOOD TO ALL ON EARTH!!!!!!!!!
Happy janmasthami!!
