Gita Acharan

K rishna says that the issue of karma and akarma is very intricate and even the wise are confounded about the subtleties of karma and akarma (4.16) and clarified that sage is the one whose pursuits are free from kaam and sankalp ( kaam-sankalp-varjitah ) and whose actions are burnt by the fire of knowledge (4.19). To help us understand karma and akarma , Krishna gives glimpses of akarma in karma and says, “Having renounced attachment to fruits of action, the ever content ( nitya-tript ), depends on nothing, he doesn’t do anything though he is engaged in action” (4.20). The crux is that such an ever-content person doesn’t do anything though he is engaged in action. Firstly, the sense of doership disappears when attachment to fruits of action is renounced. Secondly, ‘ever content’ doesn’t have any motive to perform any particular action but keeps engaging in actions bestowed by the existence. This is nothing but nishkaam-karma or unmotivated action. Thirdly, he ...