30. mayi sarvaaNi karmaaNi sannyasya aDhyaathmachethasaa
niraaSeeah nirmamo bhoothvaa yuDhyasva vigathajvaraH
By offering all actions to Me with the mind engrossed in the self, fight on without anxiety, without expectation and ego-centric impulses.
What is meant by `gunaaguneshu varthantha?' When one gets anger he thinks "I am angry" and does not say that his anger is the interplay of rajas and thamas in him towards those outside When one learns to stand apart and views his actions as an outsider he will be aware of the gunas, the constituents of his body and mind, moving among those of the sense objects outside, producing the various emotions, with which he identifies himself.
How to cultivate the attitude `gunaaguneshu varthantha?
"Dedicate all your actions to Me," He says "with your mind fixed on Me, the self of all, thus freed from desire and ego, act on in the world."
The word yuDhyasava though meaning `fight on,' implies all actions.
By Mayi sarvaaNi karmaaNi sannyasya
aDhyaathmachethasaa- with mind engrossed in the self , meaning, in the self of all, the inner self of the individual self, that is the Lord.
niraSeeH ? without expectation of the result, that is , giving up the desire for the result.
nirmamaH- without egoistic impulses. When one sheds the sense of agency there is no more ego.
vigathajvaraH- without anxiety for the result.
This can be illustrated by an example cited by Sri Ramakrishna.
A servant maid takes care of her ward in the best manner possible with involvement but she is not anxious and simply does it as her duty and once she goes back to her house she no more worries about it. Also while she was doing her work her mind is always with her child she had left behind. Like this one's mind should always be engaged in the thought of the Lord.
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