Chapter 3 Karma Yoga

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Chapter 3 Karma Yoga

• WHICH IS BETTER? RENUNCIATION OR WORK? (3.1-9)
• FIGHT! DO YOUR DUTY BUT WITHOUT ATTACHMENT
  (3.3-9)
• FROM KARMA-KANDA TO KARMA-YOGA ( 3.10-16)
• NISKAMA KARMA- do your duty with out attachment
  to set the proper example, and elevate yourself
  (3.17-35)
• BEWARE OF LUST AND ANGER. 36-42

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• Arjunas question 31-2
• Janardana, O Kesava, why do
• You want to engage me in this
• ghastly warfare, if You think that
• intelligence is better than
• fruitive work?

In text 249 You said, Keep all abominable
activities far distant. And war is certainly
an abominable activity
My intelligence is bewildered by Your equivocal
instruction.
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Which is better
Please tell me one truth !!
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NEITHER!!

• Not by merely abstaining from work can one
  achieve freedom from reaction, nor by
  renunciation alone can one attain perfection. Vs
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You will be forced to act helplessly according to
the qualities you have acquired from the modes of
material nature! Vs 5
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Otherwise renunciation without purification leads
to fall down

• one will be a pretender and fall down!

Vs. 3-8
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Dont be a pretender!
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Work for the Supreme

• Knowledge ( youre not this body Jnana)
• detachment
• Nis kama karma Yoga!
• Verses 8-9
• To reach the Ultimate level one must offer
  everything to Visnu!
• This changes Buddhi Yoga to Bhakti Yoga.

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Vs. 10-12
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Verse 311 purport
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Depend on food grains
Vs. 314-16 All embodied living entities have
complete dependence on the Lord because they
Which come from the Supreme Lord
Which depend on rains
Which depend on performance of Yajna (sacrifice)
Which are born of duties prescribed in the Vedas
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Considering this thepurpose of human life is
to please the Supreme Lord
The best sacrifice to please Him is unalloyed and
undeviated devotional service. The best
sacrifice for this age is sankirtan yajna,
chanting and distributing the Holy Name-- Hare
Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama
Hare Rama Hare Hare
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Verse 17 Sri Krsna says

• But for one who takes pleasure in the self, whose
  human life is one of self-realization, and who is
  satisfied in the self only, fully satiatedfor
  him there is no duty!

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And Arjuna thinksThats what I said before! If
one who is conscious of YOU has no duty to
perform.andif one is totally detached from the
fruits of his work, then why do anything,
especially fight?Better to just meditate and
study sastra!
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Vs. 19-30 Sri Krsnas response

• Act out of duty
• To set an example for others because whatever
  great men do common men follow!
• You should follow the
• example of others like
• 1. Janaka Maharaja
• 2. Myself
• Also act to purify yourself!

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From Niskama Yoga you can be elevated to Bhakti
vs 30-1

• Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works
  unto Me, with full knowledge of Me, without
  desires for profit, and no claims to
  proprietorship, and free from lethargy, fight!
• Those persons who execute their duties
  according to MY injunctions and who follow
  this teaching
• Faithfully without envy,
• become free from the
• bondage of fruitive actions.

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What good is repression?
Do not come under the control of attachment and
aversion. Control your senses by the Vedic
principles because they regulate attachment and
aversion
Better to do your duty than anothers.
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Meet Mr. Lust
Vs 36 By what is one impelled to sinful acts,
even unwillingly, as if engaged by force? Vs 37
It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact
with the material mode of passion and later
transformed into wrath, and which is the
all-devouring sinful enemy of this world.
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Lust
Mind
Intelligence
Senses
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Verse 38
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