BHAGAVADGĪTĀ. CHAPTER 3 / TRANSLATED FROM THE SANSKRIT, INTRODUCTORY ARTICLE AND COMMENTED BY D. BURBA
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This publication presents the Ukrainian translation of the third chapter of Bhagavadgita, which was composed perhaps in the 1st or 2nd century CE and is the most famous of the Hindu Scriptures. The third chapter is called Karma Yoga. The chapter says there are two paths: the path of philosophical insight (the Jñāna Yoga of supporters of Samkhya) and the Karma Yoga of yogis. Emphasis is placed on the difference between non-doing and inaction. Even when a body is at rest, physiological processes take place in a body, so it acts. To this is added the mental activity. One can really get rid of karma not by vain attempts to do nothing, but by selfless performing actions as a sacrifice. The chapter contains few verses considered by some researchers as an interpolation by supporters of ancient ideas about the world as an interconnected whole, in which the gods who are personified natural forces give to people everything they need, but people also must sustain gods with the rite of sacrifice. Therefore regular holding of the sacrifice ceremony is the precondition of harmonious participation of man in the ‘rotation of the wheel’ of the universe. The chapter urges to be internally removed from the world, but conscientiously to do one’s duties to set an example for people. The legendary righteous king Janaka and Krishna himself, who works tirelessly, although completely self-sufficient and does need nothing, are named as such role models. The concepts and realities considered in second chapter are explained by the translator in notes, with quotations from the Mahabharata, as well as by citing the Rigveda, Vedanta Sutras, Yoga Sutras, Laws of Manu, Upanishads, Arthashastra, Samkya Karika, Charaka Samhita and other classical texts of Hinduism.
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Bhagavadgita, Hinduism, India, karma, Mahabharata, religion, Sanskrit, translation, yoga
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