' The Teaching of the Bhagavad Gita '...

Quotes on Action: Do Your Duty, Release the Outcome ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bhagavad Gita returns again and again to one theme: act fully, act rightly, but do not cling to the results. This teaching cuts through the paralysis of anxiety about success or failure. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Bhagavad Gita 2.47 "Karmanye vadhikaraste, Ma phaleshu kadachana, Ma karma-phala-hetur bhur, ma te sango stv akarmani." "You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself the cause of the results, and never be attached to not doing your duty." — Bhagavad Gita 2.47 This may be the single most quoted verse in all of Hindu philosophy. Lord Krishna delivers it to the warrior Arjuna just as Arjuna is about to collapse under the weight of his fears about outcomes. The teaching is radical: show up fully, do the work, and release attachment to what happens next. This is not passive resignation. It is the most focused kind of action there is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Bhagavad Gita 2.3 "Klaibyam ma sma gamah partha, naitattvayyupapadyate" "Yield not to unmanliness, O Arjuna. This does not befit you. Shake off your faint-heartedness and stand up." — Bhagavad Gita 2.3 When fear, procrastination, or self-doubt holds you back, this verse is a direct call to rise. The Bhagavad Gita is addressed to a person in crisis. It does not minimize that crisis. It invites you through it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Bhagavad Gita 3.19 "Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty; for by working without attachment, one attains the Supreme." — Bhagavad Gita 3.19 Work not as a means to reward but as an expression of who you are and what you stand for. This reframes every act of service, every project, and every act of parenting or caregiving as a spiritual practice in its own right............................From Vedasai.com