"Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched."

The Guiding force of Narayanashrama Tapovanam & Center for Inner Resources Development

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

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अभ्यासेऽप्यसमर्थोऽसि मत्कर्मपरमो भव ।
मदर्थमपि कर्माणि कुर्वन्सिद्धिमवाप्स्यसि ।। १२.१० ।।

abhyāse’py-asamartho’si mat-karma-paramo bhava
mad-artham-api karmāṇi kurvan-siddhim-avāpsyasi || 12.10 ||

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But Krishna does not stop there. He knows quite well that not all are given to devotional thoughts or affinity. For those who lack devotional susceptibility, there are other options, says Krishna. He does not want to keep anyone away from the immense benefit of devotion:

अभ्यासेऽप्यसमर्थोऽसि मत्कर्मपरमो भव ।
मदर्थमपि कर्माणि कुर्वन्सिद्धिमवाप्स्यसि ।।

Even if you are unable to take to any practice, surrender all actions to the Supreme. Doing all actions for the sake of the Supreme, you will attain fulfillment.

Abhyasa or practice is always a time-bound effort. But when an all-fold general attitude like mat-karma-paramatva is adopted, it works in association with all that one does. It is a wholesome, sublime and all-embracing note. To enable such wholesomeness, the intelligence has to be active and provide the necessary insight and motivation.

We are born into this world, when our body is delivered by the mother. Ever since, the body rests on the earth. Does the earth belong to anyone? The air we breathe also has no claimant. So too, the water, sun, moon or other life-sources have no visible ownership. Wherefrom do all our actions originate? Who designed them? Whereto do all of them proceed? There cannot be a doubt or question about the answer. Whatever or whoever is the progenitor of our earth and whichever Power or Presence preserves it, to the same source alone are directed all our activities and movements.

Dedicate the whole of your activities to the Supreme, and nurse this feeling throughout. Let not the ego or any sense of possessiveness interfere. This is more an attitude-culture – an inner orientation, growing a sense of belonging and dedication. The wholesome allegiance that emerges from such an attitude, should survive, getting only strengthened every time. All the attention and focus must be towards this. If the devotee pursues this kind of all-action or all-fold attunement, that in itself will be a full-fold sadhana, and it will lead him to spiritual perfection and fulfillment.

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