ACTION AND RESULT

Much has been talked and talked about of action and the result of action . in India the theory of Gita is famous and popular that action is your duty or concern not the result . but i would like to interpret and say that you are free to take and initiate action but you can not decide of results . to make it more clear you can say that we are free and independent to have a beginning , a start , a new action of our own choice but we can not have an END of our choice . this end is called result . again be clear , you are free in choice of action but you can not have desired result . why ? because , it is action that decides the results not the actor . as you show , so shall you reap . in reality ,the action itself changes into results ; or say action itself is result . your authority lies in making choice of taking action and if you have taken a wrong decision to take a wrong action the result inevitably would be wrong . the action is the result and you have taken the decision to take that action .you are responsible for the result . so do what you like and have the results . if action once taken , good or bad , results are there. in no case you can spare yourself from those results that is the ripe fruit of your action . even God can not save you . ( if you want to take His help , HE can help you in making new decisions in taking new action that will produce new result. this is the only meant of prayer to GOD .) Therefore we should always be alert while deciding of any action smallest of smalls to be taken .
in Gita , any way action and result are bifurcated but Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) born in East Prussian city of Konigsberg and brought up and educated there and again teacher in the same university , who never went out of his city ; said in his Master Work MORAL LAW ** That there is no result whatsoever . it is only and only action that counts . he says , -Good is intrinsically good . its value is wholly self contained . it is not value but virtue . Good is perfectly Universalized moral law and Categorical imperative and utterly independent of external value and external relation . it is not sure , that Good action will produce achievements that are happy and worldly paying. Good action does not depend on the result it manages (SEEM to be results ) to produce as the consequences of human action . action should be taken as duty , duty in the necessity to act out of reverence for the Law (Universal Law ) . Moral Law has the formal property of Universalizability by virtue of which it can be used and applied at all times to every person who wants to be a moral agent . speak truth , because you should ; be regular because you should . think of no payment , speaking truth is well paid. it is virtue , good in itself .
it is said in GITA किम कर्मं किम अकरमं इति कवयः अपि अत्र मोहिता । what should be done and what not is hard to see . Kant gives one clue . Law of Universal Law . the action that you want to take should be put on this law. be yourself the law maker of the Universe and see if this action that you are going to take can be applied with every one and every where in the world . if can not be applicable , do not take that action . a simple example , -if you want to steal others things , make it a Universal law. then ? every one will free to steal and this law is not universally applicable so fails to be as an action to be taken .
choice of action is a serious matter. so decide before action. even in taking very very small actions , think and rethink and think again , take the help of those who deserve , pray to your God and then decide . you will have to have the results . yes , no doubt you are free to take any action , you like to take . ACTION IS RESULT.