Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. Better than meditation is the surrender of the fruits of action. For, peace immediately follows such surrender. Therefore, devotion towards God flourishes, but that too under Nishkama Karma Karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → Its outermost body remains Nishkama Seva Yoga. Under it, Jnana Yoga and under it, Bhakti Bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → If a seeker, while performing Nishkama Seva Yoga, keeps in touch with both the yogas that develop within, then he reaches perfection quickly, otherwise he grows slowly. When performed correctly, Karma Karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → God has assured this many times in the Gita. Devoted each to his own duty, man man Mind. One of the four antah-karans, with the function of (pronounced mun) generating thoughts and desires, and governing all of the indriyas. Tap to open in glossary → man man Mind. One of the four antah-karans, with the function of (pronounced mun) generating thoughts and desires, and governing all of the indriyas. Tap to open in glossary → One who has become Brahman, whose soul is serene, neither grieves nor desires. In this way, Nishkama Karma Karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → If one pursues Jnana Yoga while performing Karma Karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → And if, while performing Karma Karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → If one pursues Jnana Yoga, it leads to knowledge like Janaka Maharaja or the state of a wise person, and that too quickly. Independent Jnana Yoga and independent Bhakti Bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. Better than meditation is the surrender of the fruits of action. For a human being, for a seeker, the body, senses, mind, intellect, ability, strength, objects, etc., whatever a human being has, is all received from God. Therefore, by renouncing the fruits of action, that is, by not considering all the materials as one's own and for oneself, and by employing them in service for the sake of God and God's true devotee with a selfless attitude, the inertia in them is removed, and by attaining the state of complete consciousness, one attains the divine state. If there is a little less or more intellect, that intellect has been given by God. Has it been taken from someone else? Where is it when one is born? Parents give some, then teachers give, then others give, and then gurus give, like that. So the sum of all that intellect belongs to someone else. One assumes it as one's own, thinking, "I am smarter than everyone else." But intellect has come from someone else. So if it has come from someone else, and if it is used well in the service of God, then it benefits the one from whom it came, and it also benefits this person. Then even if he applies it in meditation, it will not be difficult. When inertia comes into the means due to desire, then meditation will become difficult. Whereas a Karma Karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → Yogi Yogi 1) A person who has mastered the art of yog. 2) A person who has attained siddh-dashã and other extraordinary powers. Tap to open in glossary → Not just renunciation, but renunciation of the fruits of action. Mere renunciation is not correct according to Lord Sri Krishna Krishna 1) An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in the svarup of a cowherd. This is considered to be a greater avatãr than the others, as Shree Krishna possessed all of the powers of Bhagvãn, whereas other avatãrs possessed less power. Shree Krishna conveyed the message of love and humanity to the world. Also, He recited the epic poem, the Bhagvad Geetã, to Arjun in which He stated: ‘Whenever dharma declines and adharma increases, I shall incarnate myself as a human to save the holy, to destroy the sin of the sinner, and to establish dharma. I come into being from yug to yug’. 2) In the Vachanãmrut, Shreeji Mahãrãj also uses the name “Shree Krishna” to describe Bhagvãn Purushottam Nãrãyan. Tap to open in glossary → One who renounces the fruits of action is called a renouncer. 'yas tu karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → There is a need to understand the special nature of such renunciation. Maharaj has again given priority to renunciation, a little bit. That is why He made them renouncers. It is a short cut. Instead of doing donkey labor for the world, it is better to do some donkey labor here. No matter how much donkey labor one does there, one is not going to get any fruit. Instead of that, if one renounces from there and does some labor here, then his soul will be liberated. That is why Maharaj has given a little more priority to renunciation than the Gita. In the Gita, it is not given at all. There is a need to understand the special nature of such renunciation. Renunciation cannot be of that which is one's own nature, nor can renunciation be of that which is not one's own nature. For example, sunlight or heat cannot be renounced, just as sunlight, sunlight or heat cannot be renounced by the sun. Those two are connected with its nature. Light and heat are connected with its nature, so the sun cannot make any rule for Chaturmas like, "Okay, I will renounce heat. In this Chaturmas, no one will feel any heat." It cannot do that. And the sun cannot make a rule like, "I will renounce coldness." Coldness is not its own thing at all. So how can we renounce something that belongs to someone else? Then what is renounced? Huh? Can only what exists be renounced? What exists cannot be renounced. The sun has heat, so can it renounce heat? The sun does not have coldness, so it cannot say, "I will renounce coldness." Then what is renounced? What belongs to someone else and one has assumed as one's own, that is renounced. It belongs to someone else and we have assumed, "This is mine. I am wise," like that. Then that is renounced. Because wisdom is not our own. Someone has given it. And we have assumed it. Body and wealth have been given by God, so if we have assumed them as our own, then they are renounced. Then that renunciation becomes very easy and yields good results. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. Not human-proofread., AI-translated, unverified · Source details