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Varṇadharma, niṣkāma karma, and practical morality: a critical essays on applied ethics

New Delhi: D.K. Printworld in association with Department of Special Assistance in Philosophy, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (1999)

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  1. Desireless Action in the Bhagavadgītā.Binod Kumar Agarwala - 2021 - Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 38 (1):53-82.
    In the Bhagavadgītā, Kṛṣṇa’s injunction is to act without desire in many verses. Many modern scholars have criticized and tried to reinterpret Kṛṣṇa’s injunction in the Bhagavadgītā to perform action abandoning all kāma “desire.” These modern scholars have tried to re-understand Kṛṣṇa’s injunction for desireless action assuming the modern dogma that intentional action entails desire. The aim of the present essay is to examine the cogency of the advocacy of desireless action by understanding how the desireless action is performed.
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  • Nikāmakarma: how desireless need one be?1.Christopher Framarin - 2004 - Asian Philosophy 14 (3):239-254.
    In the Bhagavadgītā K a advises Arjuna to act without desire. He also describes the nikāmakarmin as possessed of perfect equanimity. Some scholars have argued that K a's advice is a contradiction. Because action requires desire, desireless action is impossible. Others have claimed that this fact only suggests that K a's prohibition is against a subset of desires and not desire as a whole. These ‘subset’ positions, however, are not consistent with the equanimity requirement. The conclusion that K a's advice (...)
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  • Good and bad desires: Implications of the dialogue between kṛṣṇa and arjuna. [REVIEW]Christopher G. Framarin - 2007 - International Journal of Hindu Studies 11 (2):147-170.
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