Krishna told Arjun that he must fight. And in the same way we got to act. But we must not be attached to the results, since the merit belongs to God. He told Arjun to focus his mind on him wile doing all the work. Same way Catholic intelectual GK Chesterton, said that our problem is not lack of modesty. But that we became modest with our convictions, and arrogant about ourselves and our own capabilities. When the man for himself is enough, he do not have the need to improve himself, to become better. So, we see nowadays a world of fragile, insecure people, who have no convictions, but got to show something to the others. In this context of world, I like to call modernity, I saw a video wich argues "aesthetics beat arguments" and makes total sense since people are focused on show something to others and that the others perceive then by the group aesthetics (colllectivism). As a libertarian I understand this feeling of being caught between crossfire, and think that things will only change, if we manage to put God and transcendency in first place. The Bible says to "look for God things first, and everything else will be added to your life". It is indeed very difficult acomplishing this, but must be the way...
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Wow, that's really deep... 🙏 but I still have some uncertainties... Like while deciding what to do and what not to do, we imagine the possible outcome of the action and based on that imagination, we decide whether it's a good thing or a bad thing to do. At least I do that all the time. So when Krishna says that don't worry about the result, I get confused, because if I don't think about the result than how am I supposed to know if the thing I am going to do would be good thing or not?
Most of the time either a possibility of getting rewarded or getting satisfactied is what empowers me to do all the required things. How can I get that motivation if I don't think about the result at first place?
This question is very tricky indeed, is also kind a doubt for me, I am/was reading Bhagad Gita with comentaries of Paramahansa Vishwananda, and eventually it pops out for me too...My personal answer for this concern is that there is a ultimate goal and an ultimate result that is God...So we should keep this in mind as the intended result of our actions, by focusing our mind on Him, it could be praying, shanting mantra, remembering images, whatever...in this way things should make sense...But of course we are not saints, there should be a long way (or not) to get there, because the plenty of this state should only be achieved by God's Grace, and by our efforts, we could only give our tries to surrender the results of our efforts to Him, we will rise and fall until the moment comes and we attain His Grace
