Action through the mirror of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita
If you have read the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita properly, then your thoughts regarding some things must be clear. Some thinkers are of the opinion that Shrimad Bhagavad Gita is the mother of Indian indolence. This is a sly notion which has been tried very hard to spread very neatly. Karma Yoga has been at the heart of the entire Shrimad Bhagavad Gita. Keep in mind that according to her period, there has been a lot of use of religious terminology in the language of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta. But the meaning is clear. Among the two factors which have been described by Shrimad Bhagavad Gita as essential for the salvation of human life, the first is that salvation is not possible without doing action and the second is that salvation is not possible without giving up the worry of the fruits of action. And salvation must be construed in terms of final attainment of final goal of life. It's final purpose. Those who call the Srimad Bhagavad-gita as the mother of indolence have cleverly omitted the first condition and then interpreted the second condition in a blatant manner. The first condition is action. Now the question arises as to which action does the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita advocate. Here also everything is clear that do the work according to your ability, and there is no harm to the larger interest of the society and there should be no bitterness in your own morale. Then where the inaction comes from this karma? Yes, Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta has definitely condemned that action which not only corrupts one's own morale but also does injustice to others. Such actions are definitely forbidden in the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita.
The second condition is not to worry about the result of karma. So how does it go wrong? Modern psychology also believes that a person becomes successful only when he is not obsessed with what he tries. When the focus is on the result, the attention is diverted from the purity of the means used in the action and the result becomes more important. Then comes the immoral power of doing every wrong thing for success, then theft, murder and robbery also seem right. But the second essential condition of Karma Yoga of Srimad Bhagavad Gita prevents this tendency from being born. So has it become inaction?
In the 18th and 19th centuries, when the power of the British rule in India was increasing, then in the zeal to show Indian philosophy as a dwarf in front of Western philosophy, efforts started to spread this misconception regarding Shrimad Bhagavad Gita. Knowledge is neither of the East nor of the West, the knowledge belongs to the entire human race. Emanuel Kant also came close to Srimad Bhagavad Gita in his philosophy and Buddha was adopted by many. Knowledge emerges only from the synthesis of ideas.