Diligent Candy

I have been delving into the Gita, partly for solace, partly for nostalgia, and partly for direction. I am finding great comfort in these rather well-known (comparatively speaking) lines from the text:

karmany-evadhikaras te ma phaleshu kadachana
ma karma-phala-hetur bhur ma te sango ’stvakarmani

BG 2.47: You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction. (Source: Holy Bhagvad Gita)

Detachment from the ego of doing, “I am doing” therefore I have the ability of the “do-er” and also privileged to be the doer. As a karma yogi this is the hardest. Mostly, not always, the self is fragile and expects not gratitude, but an indication that the service has been received, delivered.

tasmād asaktaḥ satataṁ kāryaṁ karma samāchara
asakto hyācharan karma param āpnoti pūruṣhaḥ

BG 3.19: Therefore, giving up attachment, perform actions as a matter of duty because by working without being attached to the fruits, one attains the Supreme.

A meandered conversation with a colleague about care for others, and how much to care, and whom to care, and also self care. Knowledge, action, and devotion, but not with the self, but with a detachment to self, the self will follow, because the purpose will lead. Isn’t that also self care, why does caring for others be devoid or dissolve the self. I do it for myself. Yet, I get caught that “I do.”

It would be so satisfying to be doing, without being the doer, the energy of purpose flowing with undiminishing bright light.