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Karma-yoga and Gita.?

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Are there any Translations of Bhagavad-gita which establish Karma-yoga as Supreme? If so how do they go about doing it? Anybody know? It would help me.

Karma-yoga usually consists of [to my understanding] Fruitive Activity for elevation to heavenly planets. That is okay. But how do they establish Bhagavad-gita in its entirety as the path to Karma-yoga only?

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is 9.22

A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

www.vedabase.net

 

TRANSLATION

When they have thus enjoyed heavenly sense pleasure, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus, through the Vedic principles, they achieve only flickering happiness.

 

PURPORT

One who is promoted to those higher planetary systems enjoys a longer duration of life and better facilities for sense enjoyment, yet one is not allowed to stay there forever. One is again sent back to this earthly planet upon finishing the resultant fruits of pious activities. He who has not attained perfection of knowledge, as indicated in the Vedänta-sütra (janmädy asya yataù), or, in other words, he who fails to understand Kåñëa, the cause of all causes, becomes baffled in achieving the ultimate goal of life and is thus subjected to the routine of being promoted to the higher planets and then again coming down, as if situated on a ferris wheel which sometimes goes up and sometimes comes down. The purport is that instead of being elevated to the spiritual world where there is no longer any possibility of coming down, one simply revolves in the cycle of birth and death on higher and lower planetary systems. One should better take to the spiritual world to enjoy eternal life full of bliss and knowledge and never return to this miserable material existence.

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It seems to me going Around like this is Natural but it seems almost like Atheisum -'serving the sences'. Which is linked towards Science as well.

So Science is Karma-yoga?

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