The love and hate which are aroused by the objects of sense arise from Nature; do not
yield to them. They only obstruct the path.
It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even
though efficiently. It is better to die doing one’s own duty, for to do the duty of another is
fraught with danger.
Arjuna asked: My Lord! Tell me, what is it that drives a man to sin, even against his will
and as if by compulsion?
Lord Shri Krishna: It is desire, it is aversion, born of passion. Desire consumes and corrupts
everything. It is man’s greatest enemy.
As fire is shrouded in smoke, a mirror by dust and a child by the womb, so is the universe
enveloped in desire.
It is the wise man’s constant enemy; it tarnishes the face of wisdom. It is as insatiable as a
flame of fire.
It works through the senses, the mind and the reason; and with their help destroys
wisdom and confounds the soul.
Therefore, O Arjuna, first control thy senses and then slay desire, for it is full of sin, and is
the destroyer of knowledge and of wisdom.
It is said that the senses are powerful. But beyond the senses is the mind, beyond the mind
is the intellect, and beyond and greater than intellect is He.
Thus, O Mighty-in-Arms, knowing Him to be beyond the intellect and, by His help,
subduing thy personal egotism, kill thine enemy, Desire, extremely difficult though it be.”
Thus, in the Holy Book the Bhagavad Gita, one of the Upanishads, in the Science of the Supreme
Spirit, in the Art of Self-Knowledge, in the colloquy between the Divine Lord Shri Krishna and the
Prince Arjuna, stands the third chapter entitled: Karma-Yoga or the Path of Action.
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