Monday, April 23, 2012

Karma / Action Related Topics in the Bhagavad Gita

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Karma
·         Constituents of Karma
o   18.14.A
o   18.18.A
·         Cannot be without action        
o   3.5.1,2
o   3.33.4
o   18.11.1,2
o   18.60.4
·         Do not be inactive
o   2.47.4 
o   3.4.A
o   3.5.1,2
o   3.26.3 
o   4.15.3,4 
o   6.1.4
o   6.3.2
o   18.6.3
o   18.48.1,2
·         Attend to duties
o   3.8.1
o   18.7.1,2
·         Do not retreat from life’s battle
o   2.2.A
o   2.3.3,4
o   2.37.4
o   3.30.4
o   8.7.2
·         Learn the true nature of action    
o   4.16.4
o   4.17.A
o   4.18.A
o   4.32.4
o   5.14.A
o   18.16.A
o   18.48.3,4
·         Act without attachment        
o   2.38.A
o   2.47.A
o   2.48.2
o   2.49.4
o   2.51.2
o   3.7.4
o   3.9.4
o   3.19.A
o   3.25.3
o   3.28.3,4 
o   4.20.1
o   4.21.2
o   4.23.1
o   5.10.2
o   5.11.4
o   5.12.A
o   12.11.3
o   12.12.3,4
o   18.6.2
o   18.11.2
·         Action that does not create Karma        
o   3.9.1,2
o   3.13.1,2
o   3.31.4
o   4.14.4
o   4.20.3,4
o   4.21.4
o   4.22.4
o   4.23.3,4
o   4.41.3,4
o   5.7.4
o   5.10.3
o   9.28.2
·         Work for betterment of society       
o   3.203,4
o   3.25.4
·         Dedicate actions to higher purpose (yajna)    3.9.1,2 
o   4.23.3,4
o   4.24.A
o   4.30.4
o   4.31.A
·         Be part of cosmic yajna    
o   3.11.A
o   3.12.A
o   3.13.A
o   3.14.A
o   3.15.A
o   3.16.A
·         Variety of yajnas 
o   4.25.A
o   4.26.A
o   4.27.A
o   4.28.A
o   4.29.A
o   4.30.A
o   4.33.1,2
·         Surrender actions to the Supreme 
o   3.30.1,2
o   4.24.A
o   5.10.1
o   5.13.1,2
o   9.27.4
o   12.10.2
o   18.56.1,2
·         Be in the present with spirit of surrender 
o   3.30.A
·         Be an instrument of Krishna
o   11.33.4
·         Set example to others
o   3.21.A
·         Act in accordance with shastras
o   16.24.3,4
·         Action that purifies the self
o   5.11.3,4
o   18.5.4
·         Fruits of action are mixed
o   18.12.1,2
·         Relation of Karma to Varna 
o   4.13.1,2
o   18.40.A
o   18.41.A
o   18.42.A
o   18.43.A
o   18.44.A

Monday, April 16, 2012

Gita Shloka 5.10

ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः |
लिप्यते न स पापेन पद्मपत्रमिवाम्भसा ||५-१०||
brahmaṇyādhāya karmāṇi saṅgaṃ tyaktvā karoti yaḥ .
lipyate na sa pāpena padmapatramivāmbhasā ..5-10..
He who does actions, offering them to BRAHMAN, abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin, just as a lotus leaf remains unaffected by the water on it.

Gita Shloka 18.14

अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम् |
विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम् ||१८-१४||
adhiṣṭhānaṃ tathā kartā karaṇaṃ ca pṛthagvidham .
vividhāśca pṛthakceṣṭā daivaṃ caivātra pañcamam ..18-14..
The "seat" (body) , the doer (ego) , the various organs-of-perception, the different functions of various organs-of-action, and also the presiding deity, the fifth.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Gita Shloka 2.47

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन |
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ||२-४७||
karmaṇyevādhikāraste mā phaleṣu kadācana .
mā karmaphalaheturbhūrmā te saṅgo.astvakarmaṇi ..2-47..
Thy right is to work only, but never to its fruits; let not the fruit-of-action be thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction.