Offering the fruit of actions to God,
the Karma Yogi attains everlasting peace in the form of God-realization;
whereas, he who works with a selfish motive, being attached to the fruit of
actions through desire, gets tied down. …… (12)
The self-controlled Sankhya Yogi, doing
nothing himself and getting nothing done by others, rests happily in God - the
embodiment of Truth, Knowledge and Bliss, mentally relegating all actions to
the mansion of nine gates (the body with nine openings). ………… (13)
God determines neither the doer-ship nor
the doings of men, nor even their contact with the fruit of actions; but it is
Nature alone that does all this. …………… (14)
The omnipresent God does not partake the
virtue or sin of anyone. Knowledge is enveloped by ignorance; hence it is that
beings are constantly falling a prey to delusion. ………. (15)
In the case, however, of those whose
said ignorance has been destroyed by true knowledge of God, that wisdom shining
like the sun reveals the Supreme. ……………. (16)
Those whose mind and intellect are
wholly merged in Him, who remain constantly established in identity with Him,
and have finally become one with Him, their sins being wiped out by wisdom,
reach the supreme goal whence there is no return. ……………(17)
The wise look with equanimity on all
whether it be a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, a cow, an
elephant, a dog and a pariah, too. ……………… (18)
Even here is the mortal plane conquered
by those whose mind is established in equanimity; since the Absolute is
untouched by evil and is the same to all, hence they are established in
Paramatma. …………….. (19)
he who, with firm intellect and free
from doubt, rejoices not on obtaining what is pleasant and does not feel
perturbed on meeting with the unpleasant, that knower of Brahma lives eternally
in identity with Brahma. ………….. (20)
He whose mind remains unattached to
sense-objects, derives through meditation, the Sattvika joy which dwells in the
mind; then that Yogi, having completely identified himself through meditation
with Brahma, enjoys eternal Bliss. …. (21)
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