Chapter 5 Karma Yoga

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Chapter 5 Karma YogaAction in Krsna
Consciousness

• Bhakti is easier than sannyasa (renouncing all
  work) 1-6
• The Performance of Nis-kama Karma ( 7-12)
• Knowledge the three doers in perspective (13-16)
• Liberation Focusing on the Supersoul (17-26)
• Liberation Astanga-yoga preview (27-28)
• Peace on the platform of liberation ( 29)

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Arjuna asks the same question. Which is better--
work with devotion or renunciation of work?
Krsna seems to have said one thing in verse 41
and another in Verse 42 chapter 4 so Arjuna is
confused
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Sri Krsna Responds

• How many ways can you ask the same question?
• Which is better intelligence or fruitive work?
• If one is detached from the results why should
  one work?
• If one has knowledge should one engage in
  prescribed duties?
• If knowledge is the goal of sacrifice then if one
  has knowledge why should one continue to perform
  work as a sacrifice?

• They are both good
• But
• Work with devotion is easier
• and therefore better!

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Arjunas confusion

• You say Work for sense activity must be given
  up.
• Fighting for a kingdom, even with knowledge of
  the soul, seems like activity of the senses to
  me.
• Therefore it should be given up!
• If one works with devotion then
• how is work stopped?
• You speak in riddles, action in
• inaction, inaction in action.
• Im confused.
• Where?
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Verses 2-5 In many ways they are both the same.

• Neither hates nor desires fruits
• Free from dualities
• Liberated
• Comes to understand that he is soul not this body
• Becomes attached to working for Krishna

Neither hates nor desires fruits Free from
dualities Liberated Comes to understand that he
is soul not this body becomes detached from matter
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But work for Krishna is easier, safer and makes
you happy faster

• Merely renouncing all material activities will
  not make one happy
• By working in devotional service one can achieve
  the Supreme without delay and be supremely happy.
• At the same time the senses will be engaged
  without attachment to the fruits.
• When the senses are not engaged they may drag
  away the mind of someone whose heart is not
  completely free of lust.
• By watering the root, serving Krsna, the devotee
  serves everyone, and becomes dear to everyone.
• And everyone is dear to him.
• Can be practiced even when the heart is not pure
  by following the instructions of the pure
  devotee. Verse 56

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• Purport 57

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• Materially work depends on 5 immediate and remote
  causes

fortune (the Lord)
the endeavor (Desire)
The Doer (the body)
The situation (Nature)
The work (the action)
And one becomes trapped in the 3 modes of nature
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Although engaging all the working and knowledge
acquiring senses the self realized soul knows
that the material senses are engaged with their
objects. He is aloof from them
One who performs duty without attachment,
surrendering the results to the Supreme Lord, is
unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus leaf is
untouched by water. 510
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What is the difference between a person in
Krishna Consciousness and a person in bodily
consciousness? 512
What causes anxiety over the result of an
activity?
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Knowledge of the 3 doers Vs 13-16

• Doer 1-- The self (Jiva)
• Situated in the city of 9 gates
• Hes not working or causing work
• to be done
• Does not create activities
• Does not induce people to act
• Doesnt create the fruits of action
• Since material happiness and
• distress come from identifying
• with the body when one is not
• attached to the results he can
• live happily.

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• Doer 2-- The modes of material nature.
• They are doing everything, but they are under the
  direction of the Lord.

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Doer 3 Supersoul- is sanctioning but aloof. The
Lord, Paramatma, doesnt take responsibility for
anyones pious or impious activities
Paramatma can detect the desire of the Jiva as
one can smell the fragrance of a flower without
touching the flower with ones nose!
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Enlightenment

• What is it?
• Understanding the 3 doers and how they work is

Enlightenment
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• The soul desires- the Lord doesnt interfere
• The Lord sanctions these desires as the living
  entity deserves
• Then the modes carry things out.
• This is knowledge in the mode of
• Goodness and is called

Enlightenment
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When, however, one is enlightened with the
knowledge by which nescience is destroyed, then
his knowledge reveals everything, as the sun
lights up everything in the daytime. BG 516
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When this knowledge is used to focus on the
Supersoul then one can act in a transcendental way
Enlightenment can lead to transcendence if it is
focused on the Supersoul.
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Why does the whole Bhagavad gita center around
the declaration that Krsna is the Supreme
Personality of Godhead?

• 77 Mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti
  dhananjayano truth superior to
• Me!
• Brahmano hi pratisthaham I am the
  sourse of Brahman

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Verse 18. The humble sages, by virtue of true
knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and
gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a
dog-eater (outcaste)
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Verses 17-18
When one fixes his consciousness on the
Supersoul His intelligence, mind, faith and
refuge are focused He is free from doubts because
he has knowledge of the 3 doers He sees that the
Supersoul is sanctioning but impartial He sees
with equal vision because he has knowledge he is
not this body knowledge of the Supersoul in
every being
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Then one attains the Brahman platform vs 19-22

• He is transcendental to the 3 modes
• Mind is situated equanimity
• Sees everything as Krsnas and Krsnas energy
• Understands that whatever happens is the will of
  Supersoul
• Doesnt rejoice or lament over good or bad things
• Self intelligent and unconfused
• Knows the 3 does in proper perspective
• Enjoys unlimited happiness from within
• Not attracted to material sense pleasure
• He sees sense pleasures as temporary and full of
  misery
• Concentrates on the Supersoul

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What is the cause of all material miseries?
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And how long do I have to tolerate the pushing of
the senses?
Until the death of the body!

• One must tolerate the urges of the senses
• Check the force of desire and anger
• One must tolerate the urges of the senses
• Check the force of desire and anger

Until the death of the body!
Until the death of the body!
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Why should you tolerate the urges of the body?

• You will be happy even within this material world
• You will find happiness within.
• You will get a higher taste that will make it
  easy to tolerate material life
• You will be a perfect mystic know the Supersoul
• You will be liberated-- not affected by the 3
  modes
• You will develop faith beyond doubt and duality
• You will do work for the welfare of all
• You will become free from sin
• Ultimately you will attain liberation in the
  Supreme

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• You will be assured of liberation in the very
  near future.

Ultimately, by Krsnas mercy, you will go to Him
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• A person in full consciousness of Me,
• knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary
  of all sacrifices and austerities, the
  supreme Lord of all planets and demigods,
  and the benefactor
• and well-wiser of all living
• entities, attains peace
• from the pangs of
• material miseries.
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