KARMA YOGA MODEL WITH RESPECT TO ARJUN CHARIOT

Karma Yoga is the path of unselfish action it

teaches that a spiritual seeker should act
according to dharma, without being attached
to fruits or personal consequences. Karma
yoga, state the purification of mind

SATYAJEET MOHANTY
 Arjuna Chariot
Arjuna's chariot is an analogy which illustrates the roles each layer of the subtle and gross body plays. The chariot carries the passenger (Arjuna) in the same way that the material body is the carrier of the soul.
The chariot can only be driven with the presence of the charioteer which is the intellect. The battle ground is the object of the senses. The 5 horses are the 5 mighty senses which are tamed only by the reins (the
mind). The mind is superior to the senses and even higher than the mind is the intellect or the charioteer that grips the horses reins. 
Accept Ishwar or Intelligence force of nature as presiding factor:
व्यामिश्रेणेव वाक्येन बुद्धिं मोहयसीव मे |
तदेकं वद निश्चित्य येन श्रेयोऽहमाप्नुयाम् || ch-3, verse 2
karma yoga makes you realize the intelligent force of nature because whatever happens , there is nature or Ishwar
which presides within you. Whatever the action we performed the intelligence force is giver the result.
The chariot is the body, The chariot carries the passenger (Arjuna) in the same way that the material body is the
carrier of the soul.

Managing raga and Deves:

इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ |
तयोर्न वशमागच्छे त्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ || ch-3, verse 34
Karma yoga helps to manage raga and deves, the horses are the five senses of chariot which denotes
raga and devas, arjuna was confusion that where should be place our chariot. satya

The five horses represent the five senses (tongue, eyes, ears, nose and skin). The reins, the driving instrument,
symbolize the mind, the driver is the intelligence, and the passenger is the spirit soul. The soul teamed
with intellect drives the body and instructs the mind to control the senses.
Purification of mind:
यत्रोपरमते चित्तं निरुद्धं योगसेवया |
यत्र चैवात्मनात्मानं पश्यन्नात्मनि तुष्यतिII ch-6, verse 20
* the reins in the mouth of the horses is which means manage and control desire with the intellect(Krishna). Krishna mind was purified and
intellect drives body and instructs the mind to control the senses(horse mind).

Spread awareness :
उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत् |
आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मन:II ch-6, verse 5
*You are your own friend when you use your personality – body, mind, intellect – towards your own progress. You become your own foe when
you use the very same equipment to go downhill. the charioteer is the intellect(Krishna), Krishna control the body and

mind. The soul or Atma sits besides the super-soul or Parmatma who is an expansion of Krishna himself.
*self awareness makes a bigger or stronger personality. which means Krishna is supreme personality.
, *Karma yoga help to consciously breaking the obliterating that psychological boundaries of indivility.

Cultivation the values:

बुद्धिर्ज्ञानमसम्मोह: क्षमा सत्यं दम: शम: |
सुखं दु:खं भवोऽभावो भयं चाभयमेव च || 4||
अहिंसा समता तुष्टिस्तपो दानं यशोऽयश: |
भवन्ति भावा भूतानां मत्त एव पृथग्विधा: || 5|| ch-10, verse4&5

Human are bounded by values but they are unable to identify their values because our values is covered by false knowledge available In the world. Karma yoga is the value
based activity which is perform with dharma.
Managing internal faculty:
युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु |
युक्तस्वप्नावबोधस्य योगो भवति द:ु खहा || ch-6, verse 17
*If we keep performing karma yoga over a period of time we will be able to manage our internal faculty i.e.,
mind subdomain (intellect/emotion/wisdom).
*In Chariot, The soul teamed with intellect drives the body and instructs the mind to control the senses. If
the intellect is weak and unable to control the mind, then the senses will run wild like untamed horses. 

Accept result:
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेष ु कदाचन I
मा कर्मफलहेतर्भूु र्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥ ch-2, verse 47

Bhagwat Gita says ‘’you should perform your actions and don’t depend on your result. The intelligence
force of nature gives you result according to your actions..44

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