PHIL 3910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Indian People
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The word karma is translated both as work and as action so no action may be done. On the previous page, in vs. 5 page 112, for no one can remain even for a moment without doing work or action. They use contradiction to help us see distinctions. Ch. 4 #18 he who in action sees inaction (he is wise amoung men) strange connection that if you are wise, you will see action in inaction. Krishna speaking, not for me arjuna any action in the three world, yet i am engaged in work. Nothing for me to accomplish or do and yet i am doing stuff. It just as wrong to say god is the doer as it is to say i am the doer. We keep getting hit with the same paradox. On pg. 117 were given a kind of answer. Ch. 4 # 20, having abandoned attachment to the fruit of works.