|| Shri Hari ||

Meaning of Each Chapter of the Gita

गीताके प्रत्येक अध्यायका तात्पर्य

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Fourth Chapter

There are two methods to dissolve all actions and to be free from their bondage.   They are knowledge of truth about actions,   and attainment of knowledge.   

God creates the Universe,  but He is not bound by actions.   Because He is attached neither to the action,  nor its fruit, nor He has the sense of doership.  The action of those who have no desires,  and who have no attachment to their fruit,  melt away.    Such persons being free from attachment to actions,  and their fruit,  by performing actions are not bound.   Those who perform actions only to maintain their body,   and remain equanimous in success and failure,  are not bound.   All the actions of those persons,  who perform them in order to safeguard the tradition of the performance of duty, melt away.   Thus by knowing the truth about actions properly,  men become free from the bondage of actions.   

Knowledge consists in the total detachment of the insentient.  This knowledge is superior to the  sacrifices which are performed with materials.  All actions melt away in this knowledge.  Having acquired this knowledge,  a man is never deluded.  Even the most sinful of all sinners,  crosses over all sins by this knowledge.   As the blazing fires reduces the fuel to ashes,  so does the fire of knowledge, reduce all actions to ashes.  

  (to be continued )

‒From the book in Hindi ‘Gita-Darpan’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji