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No one can stay even for a moment
without performing action!' Performing actions
is the reason of being of life. Cita emphasises
Karma-Vada (the principle of performing
action). It is in the nature of things that a man
performs actions by mind, speech and body
— actions whether good or bad. Actions raise
the status of the man and it is the actions
which cause his downfall. Actions make a man
god and actions again make him a demon.
Action is devotion. worship and prayer. Action
makes a man great. The world is functioning
through the network of actions. Glory of karma
knows no bounds. Karma-phal (reward of
actions) are various and numerous and it is
on this account that some one is well-known,
the other is little known; one is very rich, has
all the luxuries of life, while the other is a
beggar, without a shelter. One is being born
in a palace, while the other in a poor man's