Bhagavad Gita 3.5

Bhagavad Gita 3.5

Bhagavad Gita 3.5: Verse 5

न हि कश्िचत्क्षणमपि जातु तिष्ठत्यकर्मकृत्।
कार्यते ह्यवशः कर्म सर्वः प्रकृतिजैर्गुणैः।।3.5।।

भावार्थ - Gist

निःसंदेह कोई भी मनुष्य किसी भी काल में क्षणमात्र भी बिना कर्म किए नहीं रहता क्योंकि सारा मनुष्य समुदाय प्रकृति जनित गुणों द्वारा परवश हुआ कर्म करने के लिए बाध्य किया जाता है॥3.5॥

Everyone, in any circumstances cannot abstain from work even for moment; because being under the control of nature qualities acquired from nature would force him to work.

व्याख्या - Explanation

यदि ध्यान दें तो पायेंगे कि प्रकृति की अक्रिय अवस्था कभी हो सकती नहीं, क्योंकि वह प्रतिक्षण बदलने वाली है। स्वयं आत्मा सदैव एक जैसी ही रहती है, अतः उसमें कर्तापन नहीं है, किन्तु शरीर से सम्बन्ध मानने से वह प्रकृति के परवश हो जाता है।

  1. Nature has two stages – active and passive (inactive) .To work is being active and sleeping , resting and not working is a passive stage. Even in this passive stage, the subtle or causal nature is secretively active. That is why when a sleeping person is woken up half way in his sleep he murmers I had yet not got the deep sleep – hence the sleep was growing progressively deeper and deeper. That is why after a deep sleep he doesn’t grumble in this manner.
  2. However, if we stop to think we would find that nature can never be passive; it is always changing. However, the soul never ever changes, it does neither good or evil but only because of it’s assumed relationship with the body the soul gets bound by the laws applying to nature.