You must do your duties without attaching yourself to the fruits(results of your effort). If you attach your mind to the fruit, you will be either excited or depressed. If the fruit is achieved, you are excited and if the fruit is not achieved, you are depressed. Both excitement and depression are the ways of fast expenditure of your reserved energy. If the energy is lost, you become weak and you will be unable to do your further duties. The work is in your hand and the fruit is in the hand of God. You think that the work must give you the fruit in destined way. Several times you are not getting the fruit for your work. What is the message in this? The message from God is that all the fruits are in His hand. You are not giving importance to God and you are depending on the work only and you believe that the natural system must yield the corresponding fruits of the works. If the natural system is allowed to be proved, God will be forgotten.
There is no doubt in the mechanized natural system that links the works with the corresponding fruits. But, you have forgotten that this natural system is created and established by God only. This natural system is functioning by the will of God only. Therefore, often this natural system is violated by God, so that you will recognize the ultimate as God but not the natural system. This point is the basis for the statement that man proposes and God disposes. God is not egoistic to establish His importance over the natural system. The effort of God is only to uplift the man by leading him towards His feet. His love and affection on every human being is the love and affection of a father. This type of love is justified because God is the creator of all the human beings along with the world. In the life of any human being, the success is always based on the unexpected and unimaginable side only.
Most of his efforts fail and success becomes unseen. The human being cries that the injustice is winning, but does not realize that the defeat is due to his faith on the natural system and on his ego of work. He does not realize that God is trying to preach him about this truth. However, this does not mean that you should stop the work and depend on God becoming inactive and lazy.
The fruits of your work are in the hands of God
You should work hard and do your duties to the best of your sincerity. You should only detach from the fruits realizing that the fruits are in the hands of God and not in the law of mechanical system of work and fruits. When you are detached from the fruits through this faith, you are getting two advantages. The first advantage is that you are always energetic since your energy is conserved due to absence of excitement and depression. The second advantage is that you will develop devotion to God, which is not linked to any fruit. The life of devotion is this single point only, which is nothing but that you should not link the devotion to any type of fruit. The fruit should be neither of this world nor of the upper world. You should not love God for getting any fruit in this world or in the upper world. The fruit in the upper world is generally the protection from the hell. This fruit of the upper world is generally focused in the old age.
When the aspiration for fruit disappears, the devotion disappears in every human being and you will not find any devotee. As long as the aspiration for fruit exists, the devotion is a dead body only. When the aspiration for fruit disappears and the devotion still exists, such devotion is alive. For such alive devotion only God is captured. This is the only clue for capturing God. This stage should appear at least in the old age, when all the desires of this world almost get fulfilled. But, unfortunately, the desire for protection from the hell appears in the mind in the old age. Therefore, the devotion is always dead till the last breath of the human being. Shankara says that you should be detached from the fruits related to this world and the upper world also (Ihamutraphalaviragah).
You should get detached from the fruit of work
The aspiration for the fruit (of your work ) disappears only when you could sacrifice the actual fruit. It is only cheating others and it is only finally self cheating to say that the detachment to the aspiration of fruit is equal to the detachment to the fruit. You are eating the sweet and say that you are detached from the aspiration for the sweet. If you are able to sacrifice the sweet, your detachment to the aspiration of sweet gets proved. Gita clearly says in the beginning itself in the second chapter that you should get detached from the fruit (Phalamtyaktvaa…) and this should not be interpreted as the detachment from the aspiration to the fruit.
Scholars have misinterpreted this as the detachment from the aspiration to the fruit and made the path easy for the incapable spiritual aspirants. This is lowering the level of the absolute truth and thereby making the path easier. By this, the fruit of absolute path is not really achieved. But, an impression is created that you can get the absolute fruit by the lowered easier path. You are getting the post of District Collector through IAS examination only. You will get the post of a clerk by the Group-IV examination. The misinterpretation says that you will get the post of District Collector through Group-IV examination. Now, by such knowledge, people are misled and reward the preachers heavily. The preachers are giving such false knowledge only to get the rewards from the cheated public. The preacher, who preaches the absolute truth is discarded by the public, but such a preacher is immensely rewarded by God. Therefore, the preacher should not misinterpret the knowledge for the sake of public reward.
The absolute truth should be revealed on some day or other to the human being before it dies. The human being should not be kept under disguise throughout its life. In the initial stage, you may encourage the human beings through the misinterpreted knowledge, but you should not keep them under this wrong impression throughout their lives. If the spiritual aspirants is strong with full confidence, you can reveal the absolute truth in the beginning itself. For the sake of encouragement, even if you give the misinterpreted knowledge in the beginning, you should not leave the aspirant. You should watch the aspirant for some time and follow up till the absolute truth is reveled. After revealing the absolute truth, you need not follow the aspirant anymore.
