Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 48-5. - Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= ======================================================================== Sunday, August 28, 2022. 07:00. Discourse 48: The Eighteenth Chapter Begins – Renunciation, and Types of Action :5. ======================================================================== Pañcaitāni mahābāho kāraṇāni nibodha me, sāṁkhye kṛtānte proktāni siddhaye sarvakarmaṇām (18.13): All action is bound by a fivefold factor. Therefore, knowing that there are five facets to every action that one performs, let there be no wrong notion on the part of any person that they are doing it. There are five conditioning factors behind any kind of movement, action, work, or whatever it be. Sankhya, which is the highest knowledge, and which details the varieties of results that follow from different kinds of karmas, tells us that there are five phases of an action. Therefore, the doership of an action is only one phase....