Dedicate all your actions to Me with your mind, be devoted to Me, take refuge in the yoga of intellect, and always keep your mind fixed on Me. By dedicating all actions to Me with knowledge, being devoted to Me, taking refuge in the yoga of intellect, keep your mind constantly fixed on Me. In this verse, God has shown four things. First, 'Chetasa sarvakarmani mayi sannyasya' - dedicate all actions to Me with devotion. Second, 'Matparah' - take refuge in Me, meaning surrender yourself to Me. Third, 'Buddhiyogamupashritya' - taking refuge in the yoga of intellect, sever your connection with the world. And fourth, 'Macchittah satatam bhava' - keep your mind constantly fixed on Me. Chetasa sarvakarmani. In the mind, there is both emotion and the light of knowledge. Therefore, the meaning of saying 'Chetasa' is that a person should firmly believe in their mind that the mind, intellect, senses, body, etc. and the people, objects, events, situations, etc. of the world, all belong to God. God is the owner of all of these. None of these things belong to anyone personally. God has given the right to a person only to make good use of these things. The seeker has to make this given right successful. Therefore, whatever scriptural, worldly, or spiritual actions are performed through the body, senses, mind, etc., are done by God. God does them by making me an instrument. A person considers them as their own only out of ego. The sense of ownership in those actions is to be offered to God. Only then will the actions be considered as offered. The sense of ownership is believed due to ignorance, but it is not the reality. Therefore, the sense of ownership must be completely removed from all of them, and they must be considered as God's property. Matparah. One has to offer oneself to God. God is my supreme refuge, I have no one but Him, and if we believe otherwise, we must abandon that feeling. I have absolutely no dependence on place, time, object, person, event, situation, etc. I depend only on God, which is desirable; when such an exclusive feeling arises, it is said that one has become devoted to God. One thing is to be specially noted here. People consider money, wealth, family, body, etc., as their own and believe in their minds that they have become their owners. We are at peace; if someone gets a lot of money, they say, 'We have no worries.' If we have got a lot of wealth, we have no worries. So what should this be considered? Worry about making good use of it. And if I have found God, I have no worries. If I have found God, I have no worries. Why do they feel at peace based on that money? They feel at peace based on wealth, some If they get a good job, based on that, 'Yes, now we have no problem, we have got a government job.' We have no tension. And even if they find God, the tension does not go away, and if they get a government job, their tension goes away. And if they find God, the tension does not go away, so what does that mean? It means they have not become 'Matparah'. They do not have dependence on God. Now that this Corona has come, what will happen? If we do that, it means that Corona is the sole doer of everything. God is not the doer. All remedies should be taken as told by God. The ultimate dependence should be on God, that whatever He does will happen. If the jiva is merely an instrument in performing actions, then why does it have to experience the fruits of those actions? It is not merely an instrument; it is independent. It is not alone. There is a whole group involved in performing actions. If there is a partnership firm, then there is some main partner in it. Someone may have a five percent share, someone ten percent, someone fifteen percent, and this one may have fifty-one percent. It is like that. So can he alone make the decision that 'Come on, we want to sell the company'? So can he alone with fifty-one percent sell it? Or can he sell it by majority? Fifty-one percent works in elections. That much. But the one with fifty-one percent cannot sell the company. If it is to be sold, then the consent of the one with five percent is also required. So it was mentioned earlier that one has to perform action, accumulation of action and accomplishment of action. There are two things. So by what is the accomplishment of action achieved? Instrument, eh? Four or five things were mentioned, right? Doer, action, instrument, by all of these, the substratum, the indwelling Supreme Soul, by all of them, the accomplishment of action is achieved. So if he believes that 'I alone am doing it', then? That is foolishness. But then God has given him independence. Those with five percent might have just invested and left, and this one has to run the company. How much profit to make, how much of that to do, depends on him. It does not depend on the others. The others have just invested. Still, if it is to be sold, he has to ask them. Otherwise, if it is to be run, run properly, he does not have to ask. If a loss is to be incurred, then again he has to ask. If he is making a profit, there is nothing to ask, and the others will not ask him either. He gives profit and gives them their share, so no one asks him. But if a loss occurs, then all of them run to ask, 'Brother, why did the loss occur?' This is exactly like that. That God has given him independence, 'Now you perform actions,' but if this incurs a loss, then all of them come to settle the account. If he makes a profit, then no problem. Then sell it and give it to them. All of them leave after thanking him. So he performs actions, what is your question? The jiva is merely an instrument in performing actions. It is not merely an instrument; it is independent. God said, 'Nimittamatram bhava savyasachin' (be merely an instrument, O Savyasachin). So do not consider yourself independent. And if you consider yourself merely an instrument, then there will be no bondage in this. Controlled by ego, believing 'I alone am doing it and none of these others have anything to do with it' will not work. God also has a role, but in this, the major role is of the jivatma's independence, as told to the jivatma. How to drive all these instruments, what kind of action to perform, which substratum to keep, all of that depends on him. How much to let it run, all of that depends on him. But only if all of that is on the path of progress. If it is on the path of decline, 'How much loss should I incur?' then the others will not let it run. If a loss is to be incurred, then all of them come. Even the one with five percent comes and stands, 'Give me my share, I do not want to do this.' In this, they cannot even get their share released. So it is also subordinate to God. It is not merely an instrument, nor is it completely independent. Therefore, actions must be performed with understanding. From that, God only said this much that if one removes ego, then everything will become smooth. If one does not keep ego in any action, then it becomes smooth. Our brother, those listening online or the listeners have made a request that whoever asks a question should be given a mic. We do not understand what they said. That means keep an extra mic. If it is wireless, then no problem, otherwise even if it is wired, there is no problem. One thing is to be specially noted here. People consider money, wealth, family, body, etc., as their own and believe in their minds that they have become their owners. We have authority over them. If given a job in a company, and he becomes the owner of the company, how is that? If someone gives a job in a company, a good company, then, 'Now this company is mine. Now I will not let you enter the house.' Then the others drive him out with a stick. So this jiva has done exactly that. That God has given all this material and given his share. Then he says, 'No, no, this is mine, none of yours.' 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