Isavasya Upanishad - 8. Swami Krishnananda.
============================================================== =============================================================== Wednesday, May 25, 2022. 19:00 Mantram-2. Post-8. ============================================================== Mantram- 2. "Kurvan-neveha karmani jijiviceh-chatagm samah, evam tvayi nanya-theto 'sti na karma lipyate nare." Mantram explains what our duty is. What is our duty? It is to act for isvara as His agent and not to act for your own self as an individual, a personality. If we should dwell on, meditate upon, and run towards Him and towards Him alone, we must do our duty also as an offering to Him; this has already been concluded earlier. We must understand that the world is but isvara's pratibimba, a reflection of Him. Thus we should have the feeling, ‘I am nothing, I have no standing, I am entirely dependent on Him alone'. With this feeling we should do our duty. All these elaborations are given in the form of at aphorism; i