I have been reading the Holy Srimad Bhagavad Gita for the past one year or so regularly. I am still amazed by the fact that I keep finding answers to questions that I sincerely wish I had the answer to in this book. In fact, the very first time I read a sloka from the Holy Gita (that was about two years ago, I was very irregular for about a year or so) answered a question I had for a few days. The sloka was not exactly from the Holy Gita itself but from a magazine which quoted the Holy Gita. I can’t remember the question to be honest, but again this phase is happening to me.

A few days ago, I asked myself – if we do so many actions in this material world, if we are constantly surrounded by it, how can we attain moksha? Why are the honest, hard-working, innocent people often faced with obstacles and the greedy, sinful and guilty people relishing the pleasantries of life?

The answer I found yesterday in one of the most famous verses of the Holy Book.

Chapter 2 verse 47

Karmanyevadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachana

Ma karmaphalaheturbhuma te sangostvakarmani

I used to think the meaning of this verse was… do your duty without consideration of its fruits. Yesterday, however, I realised that it meant that, yes, but it also meant more. The key word in the phrase is ‘adhikaraste’ which means ‘you have the right’. You have the right to do your duty. God is not stopping you from doing that. So, whether you do it or you don’t is up to you. This is what we mortals call FREE WILL. However, once you have decided to do or not do the action, the result is not in your hand. That is why, people often think that they are being punished when simply God either has something in store which is better according to the work you put in, or the result is an effect of an earlier misdeed. The good are never left unrewarded and the evil never left unpunished.

Then those of you have read my last two blogs know about my query regarding whether or not people who have not been exposed to vulgar content feel lust. That answer was also answered today. In chapter 2 verse 59

You can check out the verse in Sanskrit, the translation is:

Even though the sense objects are refrained from, (by one who is self-situated), the taste or craving for sense objects remains. This subtle craving also completely disappears from the one who knows the Supreme Being.

And here is the spooky part. I started writing the previous article to try to find the answer to this doubt in the Holy Gita and post it on my blog. But I was too lazy to mention the Holy Gita or look for my answer in it. I guess…God had other plans…I am but his puppet, and once you have thought of doing something in the name of God, you had better fulfil it, I got away with it this time ( and one time before also :O) I may not be so lucky in the future.

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