Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

attachment and (hankering for their) results'. The
meaning of the phrase etani api (even these) is that,
'even these rites and duties, which are undertaken
for desired results and are different from the
nityakarmas, have to be undertaken. What to speak
of the nityakarmas like sacrifice, charity and
austerity!' (Reply:) This is wrong since it has been
established by the text, 'sacrifice, charity and
austerity are verily the purifiers,' that even the
nityakarmas have results. For a seeker of
Liberation who wants to give up even the
nityakarmas from fear of their being causes of
bondage, how can there be any association with
actions done for desired results? Moreover, the
phrase etani api cannot apply to actions done for
desired results (kamyakarmas), since they have
been denigrated in, '...indeed, actions is quite
inferior' (2.49), and in, '...by actions other than that
action meant for God' (3.9), and since, on the
strength of the texts [Which support the two earlier
arguments.], 'the Vedas have the three qualities as
their object' (2.45), 'Those who are versed in the
Vedas, who are drinkers of Soma,...(pray for the
heavenly goal by worshipping) Me' (9.20), and
'they enter into the human world on the exhaustion
of their merit' (9.21), it has been definitely stated
that actions done for desired results are causes of
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