“Those who decry this great teaching of Mine and do not practise it,” Krishna warns His students, “will become more and more deluded and will lose their discrimination.”
Man is encouraged to follow a life-of-action, only when he comes to appreciate that Way-of-Life completely in his understanding. When the very theory is decried, it is no longer conducive to the intellect to accept it. Thus, decrying a philosophy is a sign of one’s intellectual rejection of it. Having once rejected intellectually, there is no chance of an individual ever striving to live that philosophy. Karma Yoga is a way-of-life, and we have to live it if we want to come under its grace.
The Path-of-Work lies through a process of elimination of the desires in us. When the ego and ego-centric desires are eliminated, the work accomplished through such an individual is the true divine action, which is destined to having enduring achievements. To the extent man is NOT practising this efficient Way-of-Work, he would grow necessarily unintelligent, and to that extent, his discriminative capacity will deteriorate and ultimately get destroyed.
The blessing, because of which man is considered superior to animals, is his divine faculty of discrimination. An intellect, strengthened by its own intrinsic capacity to distinguish between the Real and the unreal, the right and the wrong, is the mighty instrument of self-development in man. When this instrument is destroyed, man comes to behave in no better way than a biped animal; panting on the path of existence, bullied by its own lower instincts of miserable passions and low appetites. Naturally, he fails to make any true gain out of his life’s chances, and finally destroys himself.
THEN WHY DO NOT MEN FOLLOW THIS DOCTRINE AND PERFORM THEIR DUTIES FULLY? WHY SHOULD THEY FOLLOW OTHERS, OR ACT ON THEIR OWN? IN DISOBEYING KRISHNA, WHY ARE THEY NOT AFRAID OF TRANSGRESSING THE LORD’S COMMANDS? THE LORD SAYS:
