The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 8.3. Swami Krishnananda.

========================================================================= Friday, April 14, 2023. 07:20. Chapter 8: The Yoga of Action -3. ========================================================================= The binding character of action consists in the neglect on the part of the performer of the action in regard to a principle that is inseparably involved in the performance thereof. We have noted on an earlier occasion that we are not the sole agents of action, and that it is not true that everything is decided by us. The agent of an action is not one single individual, on account of which, the fruits cannot be expected by us, solely. The important invisible factor which conditions actions of every kind is what is termed the Deity, or the Deva, in this context. There is a spiritual guiding element existing as an intermediary reality between the apparent individual agent of action and the fruit that is to accrue therefrom, the motive with which the action is performed and t...