_{Bhagavad Gita:}

_{Chapter 3 continued, Karma Yoga}

_{Krishna continues}

_{Your motive in working should be to set others by your example on the path of duty.Whatever a great man does, ordinary people will follow his example. Consider Me: There is nothing in all the worlds which I already do not own. But I go on working tirelessly to set an example to mankind.}

_{The ignorant work for the fruit of their action.Let the wise beware Lest they bewilder the minds of the ignorant. Let the wise show by example how work is holy when the heart of the worker is fixed on the Highest( God).}

_{Arjuna asks the Lord}

_{Krishna, What is it that makes a man do evil, even against his own will; as if under compulsion?}

_{Rishna replies}

_{The Rajo-guna has two faces, rage and lust. Recognize these. They are your enemies.Just like smoke hiding fire, dust hiding mirror, the womb covering the embryo, lust hides the Atman.Lust hides the Atman in its hungry flames, the wise man’s faithful foe.Intellect,senses and mind are fuel to its fire:Thus it deludes the dweller in the body confusing his judgement.}

_{Therefore Arjuna, you must first control your senses, then kill this evil thing which obstructs discriminative knowledge and realization of the Atman.}

_{The senses are said to be higher than the sense objects. The mind is higher than the senses. The intelligent will is higher than the mind. What is higher than the intelligent will? The Atman itself. Get control of the mind through spiritual discrimination. Then destroy your elusive enemy, who wears the form of lust.}

                           _{End of chapter 3. will continue with chapter4.}

_Comments

_{Every man is a combination of 3 Gunas (characters)namely Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas. Sattwa is the shining and can show Atman by its pure light and is gentle. But it will bind a person to search for happiness and knowledge. Rajas is the passionate and will make a person thirsty for pleasure and possession and will bind him to hunger for action. Tamas is ignorance and bewilders all men, will bind them with bonds of delusion and sluggishness. The fact that lust, anger and ego are our enemies is greatly emphasised in Jainism and Buddhism. Our great epics and history of this world have proved that lust, anger and ego of powerful men have created their doom and destruction.}

_{References : Bhagvad-Gita translated by swami Prabavananda and Christopher Isherwood. Introduction by Aldous Huxley.}