PATH OF LIBERATION AND RENUNCIATION,
VERSE LIB 46
GIST
The person who performs his duties will be worshipping that Supreme God from which all the Creatures have emerged and who pervades throughout the Universe. Such person attains fulfilment. (Doing one's own duty is the worship).
BLOGGER'S VIEW
VIEW OF THIS VERSE IN ISOLATION
1. There is no proof of existence of Supreme God and the emergence of all the creatures from himher.
2. Superhuman forces if any, may be pervading throughout the Universe. There is also nothing wrong in calling such force Vishnu or Alla or Jehova. But what is the use of worshipping such force? Trying to placate it through prayers or offerings serves no purpose. The promise of fulfilment from such worship is imaginary.
3. A person derives hisher duties from his personal needs, family needs, relations with the society in which he resides and the country in which he lives. These duties have nothing to do with the superhuman force. There may be some duties associated with nature and environment.
4. Throughout the thousands of years of the history of Gita, readers, listeners and scripture preachers erroneously linked performance of one's duties as human to God and religion. God and Religion are irrelevant to duties. For example, respecting elders is a family duty. It has nothing to with God or Religion or any other Superhuman force.
VIEW OF THIS VERSE IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF BHAGAVADGITA, MAHABHARATA AND THE SCRIPTURES:
Gita and scriptures illogically linked the performance of duties to a person's caste. There are some scholars who advocate that the duties of castes are not dependent on birth caste, but on the "inherent qualities of each human".
AADHYAAYA 18,
MOOKSHA SANYAASA YOOGA
S`LOOKA: MSY 46
Yatah pravruttir bhuutaanaam
yeena sarvam idam tatam
svakarman`aa tam abhyarchya
siddhim vindati maanava
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