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Bhagavad-gītā 18.9
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 9
- कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन ।
- सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः ॥९॥
- kāryam ity eva yat karma
- niyataṁ kriyate 'rjuna
- saṅgaṁ tyaktvā phalaṁ caiva
- sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ
kāryamit must be done — it must be done; itithus — thus; evaindeed — indeed; yatwhich — which; karmawork — work; niyatamprescribed — prescribed; kriyateis performed — is performed; arjunaO Arjuna — O Arjuna; saṅgamassociation — association; tyaktvāgiving up — giving up; phalamthe result — the result; caalso — also; evacertainly — certainly; saḥthat — that; tyāgaḥrenunciation — renunciation; sāttvikaḥin the mode of goodness — in the mode of goodness; mataḥin My opinion — in My opinion.
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.
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 Kṛṣṇa 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 Kṛṣṇa. And when he gives up the result for Kṛṣṇa, he is acting transcendentally.