These feelings are temporary and recurring in nature therefore, endure them calmly. Verse 61: Arjuna, the feeling of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of senses with the objects of pleasure. This is the reason the very first advice that Lord Krishna gave to Arjuna is to endure these experiences calmly: The easiest and best way is to finish it through experience. Third is if it can simply be washed away through grace that is bhakti. If this fire is constantly burning within, the moment the desires arise in consciousness they come into contact with this fire and are burnt.
Second is by burning it through the fire of knowledge. So experience must be finished, then only liberation is possible. Liberation means to finish this desire for experience, which requires first switching off the process of manufacturing desire. The mystery is that in the process of satisfying one desire we create another desire. Karma is nothing but desire that is stored up and accumulated, which has to be finished. This cycle continues as long as the experience remains incomplete once the experience is complete there is no more coming and going. It is liberation from this cycle of unmanifest to manifest, to unmanifest, back to manifest. If experience is finished, there is nothing more to experience, and the cycle is complete. When experience is finished or transcended, the jivatma becomes paramatma. The manifest is the jivatma, the unmanifest is the paramatma, and experience is the key. The Brahman, the unmanifest, took up the form for the purpose of experiencing himself, the prakriti. That’s the main root from where this whole karma started. That’s the purpose for which the supreme Self ( paramatma) became the individual self ( jivatma) and entered into a human form in this material world. This means the embodied being may be completely deluded about the reality, but is always wise about one thing: the possibility of experience. Even a child is not willing to listen if you do not pamper and tempt him: “I will give you a chocolate, just run there and bring that thing.” And child will run. This attachment is to self-gain, result, reward and benefit. This verse says that the unwise always act with attachment. The reason many people are not interested in action is because they are ignorant, and they do not find any chance of enriching, expanding, sustaining or perpetuating their experience. Without experience nobody will perform action. Gain and lose are relative experiential terms, not intellectual terms.Īction originates from experiential validation. He may not know anything else, but he knows very well how it is going to benefit him or not. If we ask this ignorant person, what is gain–is it an experiential concept or a concept of understanding, every ignorant man will say it is experiential. If there is no chance of gain an ignorant person will not work. What is that purpose? For an ignorant person the purpose is desire fulfillment.
The unwise always act with attachment, but the wise man should always act without attachment to ensure the maintenance of world order.