his use of humor in Rabelais’ depiction of widows engaging in sexual activity to potentially conceive a legitimate heir plays with social conventions and challenges moral boundaries. This reflects the Bhagavad Gita's teaching: "You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work." Here, the act of sexual engagement is framed as a mere process, detached from the moral implications typically associated with it. Just as the Gita advocates detachment from the outcomes of one’s actions, Rabelais uses humor to detach these actions from societal judgment, treating them as absurdly natural and disconnected from the usual expectations of legitimacy and virtue.

"You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. Let not the fruit of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction." — Bhagavad Gita 2.47

After reading about how Gandhi used the Gita in. his everyday life i wanted to take a deeper look into this. "Mohandas Gandhi went to London to study law in order to become a barrister. Arriving in London in 1888, Gandhi felt like a frightened little frog venturing out of his well for the first time and confronting an ocean! Lonely and starving without his mother's home-cooked, Gujarati vegetarian food, Gandhi struggled hard with no knowledge of English, Englishmen or the English lifestyle and social etiquette. We can imagine how his joy knew no bounds when finally he found one vegetarian restaurant, and also spotted on its shelf a pamphlet titled "A Plea for Vegetarianism" by Henry Salt. Gandhi not only read the whole pamphlet there and then, but "with a neophyte's zeal," he became an active member of the London Vegetarian Society (LVS)." In this society he found out about the Gita and went into the detials of the script. He then went back to India and used the teachigns in his eveyday life.

https://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/Mahatma-Gandhi-and-the-Bhagavad-Gita.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com