| Mr. Akbar Hussain deserves commendation for trying to follow the teaching of Nishkam Karma in the Gita. Indeed, I have found the advice of working without expecting rewards to be the most valuable teaching of this religious book.
In my adult life I have done very little of praying, giving it up entirely almost three decades back. As far as practicing religion goes, I belong to no religion. I have a completely open mind to read any religious book. Although I would not be so naïve to say that all religions are as good/bad.
To me, the teaching of doing good things for others for in-life and after-life rewards is fundamentally a mind-corrupting teaching. A good philosophy/religion would teach people to be good to others for goodness only, not for rewards. Of course the do-gooders would always feel good about themselves; the expectation of reward should be limited to that.
When it comes to doing good things for oneself, even there people who are too preoccupied with the reward aspect do not generally accomplish much. It is mostly enjoying the work and having fun with the work that allows people to reach the top.
I wish the exceptionally intelligent animals that the humans are, they would try to learn good things without prejudice against the source, and they would shun bad things without feeling the obligation of inheritance of the source from their primitive forefathers.
Sukhamaya Bain
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