xxviii श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता गौतार्थ संग्रहोपैता by different religions. Thus any method is a good method provided it is undertaken in all sincerity and with proper knowledge and correct attitude. These an aspirant may learn through the grace of merciful men-of-realisation by serving them in all humility for the purpose. Once entered, the path itself would lead the aspirant on and on.¹ Thus action, intelligently undertaken with detach- ment and with a sense of dedication, is in fact condu- cive to and not opposed to knowledge and to Mokşa.³ For, both the knowledge and action can co-exist. The latter would not yield result of binding nature because the result is not sought after. So it is the ego, and the craving for the result that bind the man. Again both knowledge and action cannot be separated, because they represent the Jñana and Kriya Śaktis, the two aspects of the Samvid. In fact, he who undertakes action with proper technique, per- forms, and at the same time destroys, all actions. 6 This is the technique of dedicating action, and every- thing connected with it, to the Supreme;7 and it is what is known as Samnyasa 'relinquishment' (i. e. relinquishment of desire for the fruit of action). In 1. Ch. IV, 34-35; XII, 9. 2. Ch. III, 10, 34-35; IV, 11, 14; V, 14. 3. Ch. II, 48-49. 4. Ch. XVII, 23-27. 5. Ch. II, 40; III, 3; pt. II, pp. 45, 66 etc. 6. Ch. IV, 18-20, 24; etc. 7. Ch. XII, 11; XVIII, 64-65. 8 Ch. VI, 1-2; XVIII, 4-11; etc. 8
