The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-11. Part-15.

Chapter 11: God Present Within Us :

Part-15.

The whole gospel of the Bhagavadgita herein is imbedded—the principle of karma getting transformed into yoga, known as karma yoga, when all actions are realised as expressions of cosmic activity.

There is no such thing as my activity or your activity.

They are only outer manifestations, through the individualities of persons, of that supreme impulse of universal action, and therefore there is only one agent behind action—God Himself—and neither are you the doer, nor am I the doer.

If the agent is the Supreme Being in any form of action, all results of actions also accrue to Him.

That is why the Gita again insists upon our abandonment of the fruits of action.

If the actions do not belong to you, the fruits thereof also cannot belong to you.

If, by any kind of egotistic affirmation of yourself, you assert your agency in any kind of action, there would be a nemesis following from this false notion of action—a reaction set up by this individual notion of activity or personal agency.

This nemesis or reaction is what is known as karma bandhana, or the bondage of karma, which becomes the source of sorrows of various types, including transmigration.

So the creative impulse, which is the source of all forms of action in this world, is the ultimate karma.

This alone can be called real karma, and all other karmas are included in this supreme karma.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....