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It is indeed possible for man to not just become free from suffering and worries, but become Supreme Imperishable Being, by simply acting according to the truths imparted in The Gita. The first truth is that all bodies are embodied by God, which means that all beings are God, not men and women. The being who realizes that he is God not ‘I’, will stop changing bodies and live in the same body forever. The second truth is that we are not the doers of actions taking place from our bodies. All actions are performed by the attributes of Nature, but deluded by the ego we think we are the doers. This binds us to actions and attaches us to the three attributes of Nature which perform the actions, namely Sattva (purity), Rajas (passion) and Tamas (delusion). This attachment with the attributes is the cause of our constant births in different bodies.
Lord Krishna says that man can know, see and reach God, not by reciting the Vedas or by performance of sacrifices, charities and austerities, but by practising the science of Yog (Buddhi Yog and Karma Yog) declared by Him. He emphatically declares that the beings do not have right to the fruits and that they become bound by all actions except those performed for the sake of sacrifice that is as an offering to God. While Buddhi-Yog consists of renouncing fruits of actions to God, Karma-Yog consists of mentally renouncing actions to God. Renouncement of fruits is done by saying in one’s heart that the success, failure, gain, loss etc. is of God and God is experiencing the joy or sorrow. Renouncement of actions is done by saying in the heart during actions that God is seeing, hearing, eating, walking, working or whatever. This simple renouncement of all actions and their fruits to God is the greatest secret science revealed in the Gita. It steadies our intellect, frees us from ego, and liberates us from sorrows, diseases, old age and death and bestows immortality. The real battle of Dharma is to be fought by man within himself, against enemies of egoism, desire, delusion of doer-ship, and the pairs of the opposites.
All paths and philosophies profess that performing good and virtuous deeds will lead us to God, when the truth is that we are not the doers of actions, both good or bad. Before we can reach or attain God we need to know that God is an all-pervading Bhava of oneness that all is Supreme Reality and all beings are God. This Bhava/God is same to all beings. He neither hates any being nor is any being dear to Him.
Attainment of God means attaining this Bhava of sameness, becoming alike to all the beings realizing that all beings are same or they are God. This Bhava is attained by the being who takes refuge in Yog and crosses over the attributes of nature realizing that actions are performed by attributes, not the beings.. The being who crosses over the Bhavas of three attributes of Nature and attains the Bhava of God will be completely freed from sorrow, old-age, death and re-birth and attain immortality - Verse 14:20, The Gita.
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