Krishna said to Arjuna:

Karma is your nature. You cannot avoid karma; it is something you are bound to do, something that is an integral part of you. Life without karma is no life and karma without life is no karma. The relationship between life and karma is the same as that between you and the air you breathe. Can you stop breathing the air around you? If you did what would happen? You would die. There is a similar association between the boon of life and karma. Karma is an integral part of you; it is an inherent ability in life which expresses itself naturally. Wisdom or jnana is something for which you have to train your mind. You train your intellect to increase its ability to receive, hold, realize, experience and experiment with different forms of karma.

Krishna further elucidated that nobody can be without karma.

Surely none can remain inactive even for a moment; everyone is driven helplessly to action by the gunas or qualities born of Nature. – (3:5)

Krishna continued that in life there are two kinds of attainments. One kind comes through karma, when you do something and you reap the results of it. The second type of attainment comes through wisdom, jnana and when you come to a realization, you reap the fruit of that realization, whether it be in the material or spiritual world. You all have a philosophy but you never follow it. Karma is always more dominant than your personal philosophy, beliefs or ideas, therefore you seem to be more attracted to the dimension of karma than the dimension of jnana.

Extracted from the third discourse: The Yoga of Action from Gita Darshan by Swami Niranjananda Saraswati.

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