Canons of a Perfect Life: 2. Swami Krishnananda

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Friday 14,  March 2025, 12:30.
Canons of a Perfect Life: 2. ( Chapter & Slokam no in brackets)
Swami Krishnananda
Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita

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11.Duty Is Not to Be Confused with Personal Benefit"

Thy right is to work only, but never with its fruits; let not the fruits of the action be thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction. (II.47)

12.A Balanced Outlook Is Called Yoga:

Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in success and failure. Evenness of mind is called Yoga. (II.48)

13.Treat Pleasure and Pain As Equal:

Having made pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat the same, engage thou in battle (for the sake of duty); thus thou shalt not incur sin. (II.38)

14.Yoga Is Dexterity in the Performance of Work:

Endowed with wisdom (evenness of mind), one casts off in this life both good and evil deeds; therefore, devote thyself to Yoga; Yoga is skill in action. (II.50)

15.Contentment Is the Mark of Greatness and Genius:

When a man completely casts off, O Arjuna, all the desires of the mind and is satisfied in the Self by the Self, then he is said to be of steady wisdom. (II.55)

16.Inaction Is Contrary to Nature:

Verily, none can ever remain for even a moment without performing action; for everyone is made to act helplessly indeed by the qualities born of Nature. (III.5)

17.Action Is the Law of Life:

Do thou perform (thy) bounden duty, for action is superior to inaction; even the maintenance of the body would not be, possible for thee by inaction. (III.8)

18.Action Not Involving Self-sacrifice Is Binding:

The world is bound by actions other than those performed for the sake of sacrifice; do thou, therefore; O son of Kunti (Arjuna), perform action for that sake (for sacrifice alone), free from attachment. (III.9)

19.God Created Beings with an Ordinance for Self-sacrifice:

The Creator, having in the beginning created mankind together with sacrifice, said, "By this shall ye propagate; let this be the milch cow of your desires (the source which yields all the desired objects)." (III.10)

20.Mutual Cooperative Spirit Brings Success:

With this (sacrifice) do ye nourish the gods, and may those gods nourish ye; thus nourishing one another, ye shall attain to the highest good. (III.11)

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