Karma Yoga Summary

Slokas	My Understanding
1 – 2	Arjuna asks Krishna to advice on what will bring Shreyas (not preyas) to him.
3	Krishna talks about two paths. The path of Insight and the path of Unattached Action.
4 – 16	Krishna explains how nobody can live even a second without karma. Explains how the cycle of life works.
17 – 18	Krishna talks about one exception to the above karma cycle. He says the one who knows and dwells only in his Atma, totally content and happy in his Self/Atma, he is beyond karma. There is no karma that he should or should not do. Krishna uses words, Atma Rati Eva, Atma Truptacha, Atmani Eva Santushta
19	Krishna talks about selfless Karma path. Advices  Arjuna to develop Nonattachment/Asanga and be dispassionate/Asaktha
20 – 30	Gives examples of Janaka and he himself on how to practice asanga karma.
27 – 29	Krishna talks about how natural bio forces(Prakruti Gunas) incites sentient beings to acting according to their natural conditioning or samskaras.
30 – 35	Advices Arjuna to act selflessly but SELFfully. Adhyatma chetasa, Nirasee Nirmama, yudhwasya. Even jnanis have to do swadharma inorder to dissipate pre accumulated samskaras. Doing paradharma while harbouring karmic formations of swadharma will only generate new samskaras that entangle and sink you deeper in sansara. (This is not advocating for war.)
34	Krishna says that Arjunas real enemy is Desire and Aversion. Raga Dwashou Paripandhinou.
36	Arjuna asks why do even good people act stupidly or commit sins
37	Krishna says it is because of Desire/Lust and Aversion/Anger originating from Rajoguna, (Passion) and reiterates that they are your real enemies.
38 – 42	Krishna talks about the subtle structure of how desire and aversion works
43	Krishna says Arjuna to fight his enemy, the insatiable and uncontrollable Kama/Desire using all his faculties. Thus answering his initial question on how to achieve Shreyas (not preyas)