Chapter 4 Lesson 6
Action Inaction
Karma Akarma Vikarma

My note:
In the 16th Verse of Chapter 4 Krishna explains action, bad action and inaction or Karma, Vikarma and Akarma.

My note:
Karma is an action pure and simple but what is Akarma or Non Action or Vikarma a bad action?
Let us try and understand it through an example: An evil person is urgently looking for another person who he wants to harm. You know in which direction the persecuted person went. When the evil one asks you if you saw where he went, you did not reply …or lied?
Is it a Vikarma, a bad action? An akarma, a non action? Or a karma?

Let us take another example. A man deserts his wife and children because he does not want to make more karmas as he believes that is the way to liberation?
Is it a Vikarma, a bad action? An akarma, a non action? Or a karma?

Krishna states in Verse 17 that mysterious are the ways of action. In Verse 18 Krishna states: He who sees Inaction in Action and Action in Inaction is wise among men; he is a Yogi.

In Verse 20 Krishna states: He who gives up attachment to fruits of action and does nothing at all (is a man of inaction) though fully engaged in action.




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