श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात् ।
स्वभावनियतं कर्म कुर्वन्नाप्नोति किल्बिषम् ॥ १८.४७ ॥

śreyān-svadharmo viguṇa: paradharmāt-svanuṣṭhitāt |
svabhāva-niyatam karma kurvann-āpnoti kilbiṣam || 18.47 ||

Actions that conform to one’s own nature

One’s own pursuit (as ordained by his dharma), even if imperfect, is better than that of another, though performed well. Engaged in the ordained activity, one acquires no taint.

Well, in offering one’s own activities, should one be concerned about whether they are good or bad, praiseworthy or otherwise? Krishna disallows all such considerations. The thought of choosing any special activity for offering to the Supreme is incorrect, baseless. When the whole existence has itself emerged from the same Source, and that Source permeates everything, is there any need for selecting anything in particular in preference to the rest? Divinity rests in the thought and attitude of the seeker. The seeker has to think of the Supreme, its absolute samatva (uniformity) and omnipresence. That will be sufficient to make everything equally divine.

To consider that one’s action or pursuit is not good and hence disharmonious to spiritual elevation is gravely wrong. To prefer and to adopt another’s activities or pursuits on the ground that they seem better, will be self-defeating. Such thoughts of differentiation are to be eliminated. It has been already pointed out that the differences in tendencies in different individuals are born of and preserved by Nature, and none has any option in this matter.

Allow Nature to play its role and be governed discreetly by it. In such pious and wholesome adherence to Nature, no harm can ever accrue. All possible wrongs and sins, if at all, get obliterated in this sovereign note, Krishna makes it clear.

In spite of the amazing variety in the nature, tendencies and pursuits of people, Bhagavad Gita’s uniqueness is that it assures and awards uniform blessedness to all. It holds that everyone, given to his own pursuit, can become equally divine, devotional. And in so doing, is the key for spiritual perfection and fulfillment. What more does anyone want then?