... in our process of ascent to the attainment of the supreme end of being. We can then manifest the divine birth and divine action, divyam janma and divyam karma. Kartavyam Karma The Gita speaks of kartavyam karma, the action that has to be performed and never to be renounced; that action is that of (i) sacrifice, offering to the supreme Lord, (ii) self- giving, the action, which by... on which special emphasis is laid in the last six chapters of the Gita. What is underlined in this analysis is that the jiva can, by yoga, utilize Deva-nature, Shraddha, Swabhava, Swadharma, Kartavyam Karma, and various elements of mind, and work for transcending the bondage to the three gunas and for union with higher nature (Para Prakriti). The attainment of that union would, according to the Gita... and Para Prakriti: 1. Daivi sampatti or Divine qualities 2. Shraddha or faith 3. Karma or work 4. Swabhava and Swadharma or one's true nature and one's right law of action 5. Kartavyam karma or indispensable and obligatory work and 6. Tyaga or renunciation Page 126 The origin of daivi sampatti or divine qualities can easily be traced to Para Prakriti; as far as shraddha ...
... what you want to be and the process by which you can become what you want to be. To use the words of the Gita, these are the questions that can be answered by inquiring into Swabhava, Swadharma, Kartavyam Karma, and Niyatam Karma. 1 These questions have their root not only in your heart and mind, not only in your ego, but in your free Spirit. And they have relationship with the source both of your free... words, the questions that harass you can be resolved only by Karma Yoga. And the most 1. Swabhava, process of nature emerging from the Self. Swadharma, law of development of inner nature. Kartavyam Karma, prescribed action, duty, action emerging from inmost will. Niyatam Karma, action guided by law, action governed by demands of Karma Yoga. Page 72 effective method of Karma Yoga... Varnas, and Sri Krishna explicitly states that four Varnas were created by the Divine and that the four-fold Varna corresponds to four-fold divisions of quality and action. 1 The Gita speaks of "kartavyam karma" (obligatory action) and also of "niyatam kartavyam" (regulated action). 2 Sri Krishna also appeals to Arjuna to consider his 1. 4.13 2. 3.8; 18.7; 18.23 Page 128 swadharma ...
... who first gave to the Gita this new sense of a Gospel of Duty, have laid an almost exclusive stress on the first three or four chapters and in those on the idea of equality, on the expression kartavyam karma, the work that is to be done, which they render by duty, and on the phrase "Thou hast a right to action, but none to the fruits of action" which is now popularly quoted as the great word, mahavakya... desire creates no reaction and imposes no bondage. Done in a perfect equality and an unmoved calm and peace, but without any divine passion, it is at first the fine yoke of a spiritual obligation, kartavyam karma, then the uplifting of a divine sacrifice; at its highest it can be the expression of a calm and glad acquiescence in active oneness. The oneness in love will do much more: it will replace the... mixture of ego motive altogether and observes the Dharma for its own sake as an impersonal social, ethical or religious ideal, the thing disinterestedly to be done solely because it is right, kartavyam karma. "The real truth of all this action of Prakriti is, however, less outwardly mental and more inwardly subjective. It is this that man is an embodied soul involved in material and mental nature ...
... Work, according to the deepest cultural ethos of India, is connected not merely with the processes and skills of a job, but also with a profound series of ideas and aspirations connected with kartavyam karma, the work that has to be done not optionally but inevitably as a part of the inmost fulfilment of swabhava and Page 192 swadharma, — as a part of the expression of the inmost... useful. II Caeteism often tends to defend itself on the confusion it makes between itself. and the ancient system of chaturvarnya and it arrogates to itself profounder ideas of kartavyam karma, niyatam karma, sahajam karma, swabhavajam karma, and even profounder ideas of swabhava and swadharma. It is by this false arrogation that it proposes to perpetuate and portray itself as the ...
... must be deeper still, it must pervade all the parts of the being and it must descend from Above. Page 39 What is your idea of Kartavyam Karma ? Sadhaka : It is ‘my duty’ in life. Sri Aurobindo : Kartavyam Karma does not mean duty. Duty is a western notion. It is a wrong interpretation of the text of the Gita. It means that which should be done, that which ...
... with knowledge & then the results will be perfectly in accordance with what is intended, for what is intended, will be what is known to the mind as the thing that has to be done or is to happen, kartavyam karma; if Page 222 it is without knowledge or with imperfect knowledge, it will still be known as the thing which God intends the individual system to lay stress upon (tapyeta), therefore ...
... March 6,1937 A manual of Bengali Prosody is an excellent idea and I hope you will carry it out—but you are right in postponing it as the success of the musical records is now the immediate kartavyam karma, the thing to be done. Page 276 Thompson writes from the heights wrapping the purple cloak of his misunderstood benevolence and magnanimity around his wounded heart with a ...
... of the three gunas of our ordinary nature. It is true that if one lays an almost exclusive stress on the first three or four chapters and on the idea of equality, and on the expression, kartavyam karma, the work that is to be done, and if one ignores the graduality of the exposition of the teaching, where the Teacher has to lead the disciple from one psychological level of understanding ...
... compelled to, I cannot do otherwise." "I am to do it" means "It is for me to do it. I will do it; that is to say, it is my nature to do it." Something of that kind is taught in the Gita—the ideal of kartavyam karma and ni ṣ k ā ma karma or following one's own Swadharma. Kartavya is usually translated as duty but it is not correct. Kartavya is one's Dharma or the spontaneous expression of one's nature— ...
... no work natural to you, for which you have a special aptitude in and through which your soul, the Divine, can express itself fully and wholly in a special manner. But what is that work? The kartavyam karma —the work that demands to be done—deriving from your swa-dharma —your Self-nature? Evidently, it is not that of your superficial nature, which the mind chooses, the vital prefers and the body ...
... take a hand in the direst manslaughter, to "do the deed" (even like Macbeth) but Yogically. Yes, Gita's position seems to be that—to accept all life integrally, to undertake all necessary work (kartavyam karma) and turn them Godward. Gita seeks to do it in its own way whichconsists of two major principles: (I) to do the work, whatever it may be, unattached-without any desire for the fruit, simply ...
... which you have a special aptitude, in and through Page 236 which your soul, the Divine, can express itself fully and wholly in a special manner. But what is that work? The kartavyam karma – the work that demands to be done – deriving from your swadharma – your self-nature? Evidently, it is not that of your superficial nature, which the mind chooses, the vital prefers and the ...
... use, for everything has its own value in its own place and those who are satisfied with them are entitled to give them their full value and hold them as the great good and the thing to be done, kartavyam karma. But spirituality stands on its own basis and does not depend on these things nor does it even include them so long as they are based on some other than the spiritual consciousness and not transformed ...
... that what is for the best will happen, but also that if one can make oneself a true instrument, the fruit will be that which one's will guided by the Divine Light sees as the thing to be done —kartavyam karma." Faith that always what is for the best happens. We may for the moment not consider it as the best because we are ignorant and also blind, because we do not see the consequences of things and ...
... personal desire. But how should he then act at all? He will act according to the best light available to him at that moment regarding the crucial question of what he should do then, this kartavyam karma. Here he has to be very very sincere and not take to any clever subterfuges to deceive himself and others. Now this 'best light' may not absolutely be the 'best' but that does not matter ...
... conflict of the three gunas of our ordinary nature. It is true that if one lays an almost exclusive stress on the first three or four chapters and on the idea of equality, and on the expression, Kartavyam Karma, the work that is to be done, and if one ignores the graduality of the exposition of the teaching, where the Teacher has to lead the disciple from one psychological level of understanding to a ...
... hand in the direst man-slaughter, to "do the deed" (even like Macbeth) but yogically. Yes, The Gita's position seems to be that – to accept all life integrally, to undertake all necessary work ( kartavyam karma ) and turn them Godward. The Gita seeks to do it in its own way which consists of two major principles: (1) to do the work, whatever it may be, unattached – without any desire for the fruit, simply ...
... person gradually towards the widening ranges of consciousness and existence. In all the stations of his life, in every sphere and status Sri Aurobindo was doing his duties, that is, his work – kartavyam karma – selflessly, which means with no sense of self, or perhaps we should say, with supreme Selfhoodness; for such is the character, the very nature of the born yogi, the Godman. The duties done for ...
... cannot do otherwise.' "I am to do" means I am doing it, it is for me to do it, I will do it, that is to say it is my nature to do it.' Something of that kind is taught in the Gita – the ideal of kartavyam karma and niskāma karma or one's Swadharma. Kartavya is usually translated as duty but it is not correct. Kartavya is one's Dharma or the spontaneous expression of one's nature, what one is to do, not ...
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