Category: Chapter 3
This subcategory covers commentary on chapter 3 of Bhagavad Gita. This chapter, titled as Karma yoga, covers how to engage in action selflessly, doing your best, without obsessing about the specific desired outcome. Such engagement gradually leads to purification of one’s mind, leading to higher evolution,
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In the concluding verses of chapter 3, Lord Krishna explains that behavior is influenced by one’s nature, comprised of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. He emphasizes that true happiness comes from performing one’s duty (svadharma) selflessly, while desires and anger hinder spiritual progress. Control over senses, mind and intellect, helps one achieve abidance in the Self.
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Ultimate goal of karma yoga is to attain Naiṣkarmya siddhi – state of action-less-ness. Such state can be achieved by practicing Karma yoga. An ignorant person goes towards world as he feels sense of incompleteness within himself. He thinks that the world (person, object or experiences) will make him feel complete. However, the practitioner of…
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The very nature of karma is binding, as it creates more vāsana and saṃskāra. Then how can the same karma be used to release us? The answer lies in the shift of attitude while performing such karma – i.e. Karma yoga. In the few verses from 3.9 to 3.13, lord Krishna defines yajñabhāvanā as a…