20. Śraddha, Your Peak Possibility (3.30-3.32)

Next, Kṛṣṇa says: Those who execute their duties according to My injunctions and with authenticity, without envy, become free from the bondage of actions. He says, 'according to My instructions, My words, ye me matam idaṁ nityam (3.31)'. When He says My instructions, He means instructions from the ātman, the being.

When you complete and drop the goals and fall into your being, the Divine will guide you and you will become an instrument in His hands.

This is the first time Kṛṣṇa says 'śraddha. Śraddhā means faith plus the courage of authenticity to execute the highest level of possibility.

The courage of being established in the peak of your capability, and responding to life from–who you perceive to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, what others expect you to be for them and what you expect them to be for you, is what is called śraddhā**, Authenticity.**

Here Kṛṣṇa says, 'śraddhāvanto 'nasūyanto,' the man who executes the teachings with śraddhā, with authenticity, without envy, anasūyanto.

Comparison or jealousy is the root from which inauthenticity justifies itself and continues to exist in you! All your joy, the very bliss of living is swallowed by this one illusion called comparison. Jealousy and comparison have no absolute existence, they are delusory patterns.

A karmi is an inauthentic person who rejects his highest possibility. A karma yogi is one established in authenticity in action, empowered to live his highest possibility. The man who is driven by inauthenticity, his lowest possibility, jealousy is a karmi, and the man who allows authentic action, his highest possibility, Consciousness to drive him is a karma yogi.