Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

------------------------------------------- Sunday, October 18,  2020. 10:11. AM.  Chapter 7: The Nature of Right Understanding-4. --------------------------------------------- 1. We have only a duty, and we have no right to expect any fruit out of the performance of duty. This is the great ringing tone of the teaching of the Bhagavadgita. This is something which the modern mind cannot easily understand because it is sunk in the mire of the expectation of fruits even before the seed is being sown. We are always after the rights that we have to expect from the world, minus the duties that we seem to owe to the society in which we are. One cannot expect the fruits of one’s action. There is a great mistake in this expectation because the fruits are not in one’s hands, while action is obligatory. Even to take a common example of sowing the seed in a field, look at the work of the farmer. He does his duty very well, but we cannot say that the fruit is entirely in his hands. Many fa...