Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday,  June 17, 2021.8:04. AM. Chapter - 9. The Fourth Chapter Continues: The Performance of Action as a Sacrifice - 5. Post-5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. An individual must have performed great punya, great merit in the previous birth or in several births, to be able to appreciate this great truth of the identity of ourselves with the atmosphere in which we are stationed. Therefore, unselfish action is itself a fruit thereof. If we become healthy, do we ask what we get if we become healthy? Health itself is the fruit thereof. Similarly, unselfishness is nothing but a healthy relationship that we maintain with the world, and perhaps with God. And what we call selfish action is an unhealthy relationship that we maintain with the world and with God—an alien relationship, as it were. We treat the world and God as foreigners, as if we...