Swami Mukundananda Bhagavad Gita |best| Access

"I am not this body, nor this mind. I am the eternal soul. Let the battle begin."

"You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction." swami mukundananda bhagavad gita

Swamiji wrote: "The problem of the modern executive is not a lack of effort, but an excess of attachment. You believe you are the doer , so you believe you are the owner of the result. When the result does not match your expectation, you collapse. The Gita teaches you to act with the skill of a master and the detachment of a witness." "I am not this body, nor this mind

"Read this. Not as a scripture. Read it as a user manual for the human mind." Never consider yourself the cause of the results

A friend, seeing his state, didn't offer a job or a lawyer, but a book. "Just read the first chapter," she said. "But read JKYog's translation. Swami Mukundananda's commentary."

Within a year, the "failing division" turned around. The board, embarrassed, offered him his old job back. Rohan smiled and declined. He had learned the Gita's final lesson from Swami Mukundananda: true freedom wasn't a corner office. It was the ability to sit in the chariot of life, look at the battlefield of challenges, and say with steady eyes:

Rohan wasn't religious in a conventional sense, but he understood the principle. He accepted the role. He worked with even more passion than before, but without the clutching fear. He was the charioteer, not the horse. He steered, but he didn't whip himself bloody over every pothole.