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Chapter(105)How could we know karma yoga as an instrument to gain Salvation?

How could we know karma yoga as an instrument to gain Salvation?

Lord Shri Krishna explains Arjun about the karma yoga hat a Sadhak can achieve salvation through Gyan Yoga, Bhakti yoga and karma yoga but to follow karma yoga is the simplest way for a sadhak.

Lord explains that a person has to follow his duty without expecting anything as reward or fruit for the welfare of others is the only way to remain free from the cycle of birth and death when a Sadhak wants to do meditation there are two ways .He can do it through his karma or by avoiding activities karma.

PRAVRUTISHCHA NIVRUTISHCHA DWIVIDHAM DHARMASADHANAM.

But a man has under the eight types of strings that binds him .

DHRUNA SHANKA BHAYAM LAJJA JUGUPSA CHETI PANCHAMI I

KULA SHILAM CHA MANAM CHA ASTAUPASH: PRAKIRTITA: II

Hate, doubt fear, kindness, shamefulness, instincts to know suspense of others, saying bad words for others , discussing dynasty, own character and his caste of birth. He cannot remain free from that strings that binds him and make him do his karma but if he can control over all the negative elements and illusion and if he could make himself a true Brahmin who knows the suspense of Brahma through knowledge as nurture virtues as:

RUJUTAPASVI SANTUSHTA: kshamashilo jitendriya: I

DATA GYANI DAYALUSHCHA BRAHMANO NAVABHI: GUNAI: II

Following Simplicity, be austere, contended, forgivefulness, have control over his senses, do charity, be knowledgeable and kind with good character he could be a Sadhak whatever we do here as our karma good or bad nine supervisor are there who becomes witness of all our karma .They Are :

SYRYA: SOMO YAM: KALO MAHABHUTANI PANCHA CHA I

ATE SUDHASHUBHARVYE TU KARMANAM NAV SAKSHIN: II

They are The Sun, the moon, the God of death Yam, the time, the earth, the water, the fire, the wind and the sky inside our body and outside in the universe. They observe our karma and we get good and bad reward from our karma when a person wants to control his senses, he can do it through ten ways by following:

TAP: SANTOSHMASTIKYAMA DAMAM DEVSYA POOJANAM I

SIDDHANTA SHRAVANAM CHAIV HRI MARTISHCHA JAPO HATAM II

 Tap, contentment, having faith in God, By controlling his senses, by worshiping God, by listening Shastras, by feeling shame while doing forbidden karma, by using his intellect in the welfare by performing Havan, by serving Fire God and performing Hawan. But the simplest way for a simple person who does not know anything about Shastras and Vedas, Purans and Upanishad who could not listen to the speech of Saints or control his senses, could apply the simplest way of remaining busy in his own karma whatever he can do for the welfare of others.

Every person has his body and senses, mind and intellect, sources and instruments, skills and strength, power and inherited potentialities through which he could do welfare of others. If a person remains busy on doing his karma selflessly, having full faith in God and patience to wait for GOD's mercy without expecting anything for himself as reward, he could be a Karma yogi. Just as when a mother remains busy in household work for the comforts of his beloved family members, she could not sit for hours to do meditation daily but her karma of serving others becomes her karma yoga. If there is no selfish motive behind it and NO DESIRE to get anything as a reward. In the same way a doctor or an engineer, a farmer or a street hawkers does his destined karma whichever he has to perform by his Varna and Ashram for the welfare of others ,it is his meditation and karma yoga that could bless him salvation.

But when a person does not do his destined karma selflessly and turn to negative or bad karma, to accumulate wealth and to entertain his senses through luxurious things, greed and jealousy, anger and envy overpowers him .He forgets everything about religion and sayings of Shastras .When a person lives under the illusion, he wants to be God on the earth and to fulfill his desire, he would be dragged into all negative and non-religious activities. He becomes:

MATTA: PRAMATTA: UNMATT: SHRANTA: KRUDDHA: BUBHUKSHIT: I

TVARMANSHCHA LUBBHASHCHA: BHIT: KAMI CHA TE DASH II

He gets addicted to drugs because he has lost his thinking power and knowledge of good and bad karma. He remains unaltered and does not understand that he had to live his human life once and should do good deeds and provide services to others. He becomes crazy about accumulating things and power and forgets that God has given him everything to him for sharing. He becomes furious when he could not fulfill his desires to accumulate wealth or control over desired persons. He fears that he would lose perishable wealth and so called fake and false relations make him full of fear and he gets tired by making continuous efforts to accumulate everything in the world and his hunger for name and fame, power and prestige, wealth and property make him greedy and selfish .He remains busy for the whole life and feels fear as if death is following him and he has to complete every task before death .So he remains in hurry and his anxiety for fulfilling his desires to entertain his senses makes him involved in involved in perishable things just as a creature of mud indulges and entertain in the dirt. Hence Lord Krishna explains Arjun that when you do not understand what to do ,you have to follow what the Shastras say and if you have not studied Shastras ,you have to follow what the great people say and do because as we know:

TARKOAPRATISHTHA: SHRUTAYO VIBHINNA:

NAIKO MUNI RYASYA VAYA: PRAMANAMA I

DHARMASYA TATVAM NIHITAM GUHAYAM MAHABAHO YEN GATA: SA PANTHA: II

No logic about religion is steady.Shruti describes various things that a common man cannot understand. There is no Saint in this world whose opinion is considered as standard in all the matters. The substance of religion is hidden in the cares of ignorance .Hence it is better for a simple man to follow way on which great people provide guidance through their speech and deeds and that is the only solution for a person about his puzzle of what to do and what not to follow.

        To justify this Lord Shri Krishna explains Arjun that ancient tradition of Indian culture .

        Let's know what is our Indian tradition to follow karma yoga as an important for the salvation?