A Study of the Bhagavadgita :14.4. - Swami Krishnananda.
====================================================================== ======================================================================== Wednesday, September 14, 2022. 06:30. Chapter 14: Our Involvement in the Whole Creation -4. ======================================================================= Karaṇaṁ ca pṛthagvidham: There are also instruments of action. For instance, you may be digging, but your instruments are blunt, not working properly, or the nib of your fountain pen is broken, so you cannot write well, or the apparatus that you use in a scientific laboratory is defective; these are various ways in which your instrument of action may not be suitable for the purpose, and this conditions the result of your action. So the instruments of action are the third factor. Vividhāś ca pṛthakceṣṭā: The motive behind action is the fourth factor. The intention with which you are doing a thing is very important, though the intentions are not always very clear to your min...