Sacrifice Your Ego – In Gita Verse 3.9 Work done as a sacrifice for Viṣṇu has to be performed; otherwise work causes bondage in this material world. Therefore, O son of Kuntī, perform your prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always remain free from bondage.
Krishna’s words are wonderful, it says that we always try not to act because we have got fear of creating bondage from our actions.
It is very easy for us to go into such excuses for not doing our act, whenever we have to take any action at that time we have a choice how to act from our subjectivity, which will release us from all the bondages. We are unable to see this opportunity as we never live consciously. We always like to follow others. If our action comes from subjectivity then the same action will become Sacrifice for Vishnu, Universe.
When we choose to take action from our subjectivity it needs courage and responsibility towards ourselves. When we take our own responsibility indirectly we drop to follow anyone. We drop our cowardliness. We drop our personality. Person who doesn’t want to act from his subjectivity is cowardly and a person who chooses to act from his subjectivity is courageous and individual. Individuals have courage to live in the unknown and unknowable. He is not demanding. He just lives as per the present moment’s demand. He is not judgemental. He is prayerful but not demanding. Demand comes only when we create resistance to act. Our resistance to respond in the present moment is nothing but our ego, which wants to follow someone. When we become followers we are entering into bondage.
In my blog Bhagavad Gita Verse 2.9, I have mentioned how Gaur Gopal became an individual. He had all the temptation to follow the family and society, but he stood up as an individual to take sanyas and not only that after his sanyas he is guiding many people to live as individuals. This is a real Sacrifice to Vishnu, Universe. If he would have followed the family members’ advice or society he would have created bondage.
Your bondage is yours, how can my truth cut your bondage? You have created your bondage out of your ignorance, you have to create your own liberty out of your realisation of truth. Nobody else can liberate you. Only you, and only you.
So what is bondage? – Bondage is something which you have to do as an obsession, as a compulsion. You never wanted to do it and you have to do it. You have to go against yourself, whatever it is, it is a bondage. If you are just floating and it is what you always wanted to do with your total heart, your total being, it is freedom.
Krishna says to Arjuna that right now due to your own ignorance you want to act which will create nothing but bondage. If you wake up and look at your own self suddenly you will realise that you have courage to act from your subjectivity. It will liberate you. It will be the real Sacrifice that you will be offering to Vishnu, Universe. Because you have kept your ego, your personality, your image to society, everything on the stack.
It is easy to become part of the society and get into the rut; it is difficult to get out of it. And once you are in a rut, you start becoming afraid. What will happen if you get out of it? You will lose money, you will lose this, you will lose that. But you are losing your life all the time.
Life should be the supreme value. Nothing should be put above life. Krishna calls a man religious who puts life as the supreme value, and sacrifices everything to life, and never sacrifices his life to anything.
Never sacrifice your life for anything. Sacrifice everything for life. Life is the ultimate goal: greater than any country, greater than any religion, greater than any god, greater than any scripture, greater than your desire. But nobody is going to say that to you, no leader is going to say that to you because then their whole business is gone. No priest is going to say that to you because then their whole business is gone.
If you understand Krishna well, then become part of the society. You are part of the society; do only what is needed, but never get lost.
Krishna is saying to Arjuna that you have lost in the society just for getting some kind of recognition. Realise this, Sacrifice everything for Life. In nutshell: Sacrifice your ego for everything.
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