19. Nothing Binds Me, Yet I Engage in Responsible Work

Kṛṣṇa, who owns responsibility, the space of leadership consciousness, Īśvaratva, is making Arjuna own responsibility. Kṛṣṇa beautifully explains, 'Whatever action is performed by a great person, others follow.'

Out of compassion, He enriches by showing the path of responsibility to reach His state. He has nothing to gain or lose, yet He is constantly engaged in action, enriching the three worlds. Why? Because people look up to Him as God. People's anyakāra, the expectation that world has from Kṛṣṇa is that He is God, Bhagavān. If He did not engage in action to make others' responsible, people would follow His example and fall into irresponsibility, inaction or akarma. He is responsible to fulfill even others' image about Him for leading them. That is Bhagavān's authenticity and responsibility!

Role Of The Wise (3.26-3.29)

An ignorant man says, 'I shall do this action, karma and thereby enjoy its result.' A wise man should not unsettle this belief. If the wise man condemns the actions performed with attachment, the ignorant person may neglect his responsibilities.

Karma is nothing but the unfulfilled or incomplete patterns and desires, which are inside your being, that constantly make you travel in the same path again and again, trying to give the experience of completion in your inner space.

When you do not take responsibility for actions, the very actions and their effects bind you into further incomplete actions or desires.