This question has arised in many people’s minds in the last 20 years that i have been exposed to the practice. Each time when i answer to the student’s queries regarding this, it is like climbing Mount Everest. If you have not climbed any mountain, or for that matter, any
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Once a man went to the animal market to purchase a goat and was taking it home. On the way home, 3 thieves spotted this brahmin and thought and hatched an idea to steal the goat from this brahmin, right under his nose. The brahmin, as he is, was a
“yogasamnyastakarmanam jnanasamchinnasamsayam atmavantam na karmani nibadhnanti dhanamjaya” “O Winner of Wealth (Arjuna), he who has relinquished work by yoga, and who has torn apart his doubts by wisdom, becomes poised in the Self; actions do not entangle him.” In this verse of chapter 4 titled “The Supreme Science
“na karmanam anarambhan naiskarmyam puruso snute na ca samnyasanad eva siddhim samadhigacchati” “Actionlessness is not attained simply by avoiding actions. By forsaking work no one reaches perfection.” In this verse the term actionlessness is not referring to actions of the body, but of actions of the mind. It
