A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 19- Swami Krishnananda.
=================================================================================== Monday 25, Mar 2024 06:50. Chapter 5: The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita-8. Post-19. =================================================================================== The philosophy of the Bhagavadgita is not merely work, but participation in the production of a value that is transcendent to the action itself. When a large machine is working, every little part works and contributes to the machine's output, the output being transcendent to the machine itself. The machine is an instrument, and the parts are also participants. Something is automatically produced as a transcendent result by the participation of the parts in the work of this large machinery of the world. What follows from all this? You cannot sit quiet, nor can you motivate action by your own self independently. You are wound up inextricably, warp and woof, as in the fabric of a cloth, in the arrangement of things in this uni...