Keeps him nature ever engaged.

6

Refrains if one, ever craving

Restraint it’s but misleading.

7

Reins as carnal, tucked in mind

Strive who doth in deeds excel.

8

Lest thee should stake survival

Turn thy back not on thy work

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19

Ever thee act at par duty

Let that be thy goal of life.

20

Lead mankind in Janaka’s route

To moksha en route deeds selfless.

21

As and when thou prove thy worth

Emulates world then acts all thine.

22

Left with none to gain or prove

Keep I Myself ever engaged.

23

Were I to fail to self-exert

Man might follow suit as well.

25

Strive as wise to act freely

Get bound unwise ever restrained.

26

Waste not breath, ill-informed with

Wise show ways through their own deeds.

27

Gloat as egotists of their deeds

Sourced are acts in one’s nature.

28

Those that see the senses lie

Behind the deeds are truly freed.

29

Let go wise, who swear by

Joys of life that nature tends.

30

Act not with fear or favour

Unto Me leave, right ’n wrong.

31

Whoso takes, this advice

Feels no burden ever engaged.

32

Who this lets go mindlessly

Gropes in darkness, ever in life.

33

Beings as by nature ruled

In spite of their self-restraint

Wise too tend to lose their way.

34

Pays it to see grips avarice

Senses those thine nature tends.

36

Thus spoke Arjuna:

Why should one with right intent

Stray ever on the wayward ways!

37

Thus spoke the Lord:

Well, it's passion, lust ’n wrath

Drag that man on path painful.

38

Flame ’n mirror as shrouded

Without let by smoke ’n dust

As well embryo in the womb

Wisdom is by wants clouded.

39

Wise all tend to cap all wants

Which like fire all burn to core.

40

Veiled off wisdom sees not man

Mind and body steeped in wants.

41

Rein in matter with thy mind

Thus thou nip thy wants in bud.

42

Score over senses sensuous feelings

Betters that mind, bettered by knowing

But above all Spirit that reins supreme.

43

Let thy Spirit

Rule the roost,

Restrain thou

Thy mind mischievous.

Ends thus:

Theory of Action,

The Third Chapter

Of Bhagavad-Gita

Treatise of self-help.




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