Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God - Chapter-3.7 - Swami Mukundananda.

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Friday 14, February 2025. 09:40.
Srimad Bhagavad Gita:
Chapter 3: Karma Yogam: (The Yogam of Action): 7.
Swami Mukundananda.

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Slogam-7.

"Yas tvindriyani manasa niyamyarabhate ’rjuna

karmendriyaih karma-yogam asaktah sa vishishyate."

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yah—who; 

tu—but; 

indriyani—the senses; 

manasa—by the mind; 

niyamya—control; 

arabhate—begins; 

arjuna—Arjuna; 

karma-indriyaih—by the working senses; 

karma-yogam—karm yogam; 

asaktah—without attachment; 

sah—they; 

vishishyate—are superior.

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Translation:

BG 3.7: 

"But those karma yogis who control their knowledge senses with the mind, O Arjuna, and engage the working senses in working without attachment, are certainly superior."

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Commentary:

The word karma yogam has been used in this slogam. 

It consists of two main concepts:

 karmam (occupational duties) and Yogam (union with God). 

Hence, a karma yogi is one who performs worldly duties while keeping the mind attached to God. Such a karma yogi is not bound by karma even while performing all kinds of works. This is because what binds one to the law of karma is not actions, but the attachment to the fruits of those actions. And a karm yogi has no attachment to the fruits of action. On the other hand, a false renunciant renounces action, but does not forsake attachment, and thus remains bound in the law of karma.

Shree Krishna says here that a person in household life who practices karm yog is superior to the false renunciant who continues to dwell on the objects of the senses in the mind. Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj contrasts these two situations very beautifully:

“When one works in the world with the body, but keeps the mind attached to God, know it to be karm yog. When one engages in spirituality with the body, but keeps the mind attached to the world, know it to be hypocrisy.”

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Next

Slogam-8.

Continued

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