BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:9

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:9

 

karyam ity eva yat karma

niyatam kriyate 'rjuna

sangam tyaktva phalam caiva

sa tyagah sattviko matah

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

karyam--it must be done; iti--thus; eva--indeed; yat--which;

karma--work; niyatam--prescribed; kriyate--is performed; arjuna--O

Arjuna; sangam--association; tyaktva--giving up; phalam--the result;

ca--also; eva--certainly; sah--that; tyagah--renunciation;

sattvikah--in the mode of goodness; matah--in My opinion.

 

TRANSLATION

 

O Arjuna, when one performs his prescribed duty only because it ought

to be done, and renounces all material association and all attachment

to the fruit, his renunciation is said to be in the mode of goodness.

 

PURPORT

 

Prescribed duties must be performed with this mentality. One should

act without attachment for the result; he should be disassociated from

the modes of work. A man working in Krsna consciousness in a factory

does not associate himself with the work of the factory, nor with the

workers of the factory. He simply works for Krsna. And when he gives

up the result for Krsna, he is acting transcendentally.

 

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