Eighteenth
Discourse – The Yoga of Liberation and Renunciation
Here
you behold the ultimate result or effect of the Lord's advice and teachings to
Arjuna. The
drama of Arjuna's utter despondency and breakdown is finally resolved in
triumphant self-mastery, strength and bold resoluteness.
Its
central message emerges as an assurance that whatever we do in life, one can
qualify for the highest liberation if one performs actions by renouncing
egoism, attachment and surrendering all desires for selfish, personal gain. By
offering all your efforts as a worship to God, you obtain the Grace of the Lord
and attain the Eternal One.
Arjuna
questions the Lord: “What is the essence or truth of Tyaga (renunciation)?”
The
Lord makes it clear to us that real renunciation lies in renunciation of
selfish and impure actions, and even more in the renunciation of the desire or
greed for the fruits of any action. We
must engage ourselves in virtuous and selfless actions, conducive to the
welfare of others, by renouncing attachment and greed. This is called Sattwic
Tyaga – we neither hate unpleasant action nor are we attached to pleasurable
action. As it is not possible for you to renounce all action, the renouncing of
egoism, selfishness and attachment in your activity is declared as true
renunciation. Karma
(deeds) does not accumulate and bind one who is thus established in such inner
renunciation.
The
Divine injunction is that God must be made the sole object of one's life. This
is the heart of the Bhagavad Gita gospel
and the central message in its teachings.
Where
there is such obedience as that of Arjuna and such willing readiness to carry
out the Divine teachings, surely prosperity, victory, glory and all blessedness
will prevail there.
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