Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, September 15, 2020. 10:44.AM. Discourse 5: The Second Chapter Concludes – The Establishment of the Soul in Universality -3. ------------------------------------------------- 1. Now, having said all this, we go to the great injunction of the Bhagavadgita:  karmanyevadhikaras te ma phaleshu kadacana,  ma karmaphalahetur bhur ma te sango’stvakarmani (2.47).  Our duty is to act—that is karmanyevadhikaras—but we have no right to expect any result or particular fruit to accrue from our action.  From a cursory point of view, this looks like a very hard teaching, like a cruel employer telling a labourer to work hard without expecting any wages. But does God say that we should go on working and He will give us nothing?  God is not a cruel master.  The principle behind the obligatory duty incumbent upon every individual is the involvement of every individual in the structure of the universe, to which I ...