Verse-47
Chapter 2 — Sānkhya Yog
Verse 47
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
karmaṇyevādhikāraste mā phaleṣu kadācana
mā karmaphalaheturbhūmā te saṅgo'stvakarmaṇi
🕉 English Translation
📜 Translation
English
Your right lies in the performance of action, never in its results. That is why you should not become an agent of the results of actions but at the same time do not be attached to inaction.
The Gita is an extremely liberal scripture. There is not even the slightest trace of narrow-minded thinking in this scripture. It is necessary to read, reflect and practice and develop a spiritual outlook towards it with the same liberal approach. The essential Truth is in the inner recesses of our consciousness and it is of the nature of absolute bliss. If a tap has been installed inside the house and water supply has been procured, where is the need to fetch water from outside? Once the experience of inner joy for external desire and from where will the motivation come for desireful actions?
Actions with selfish motives are the irony of life. The Vedas and the scriptures are of a voluminous nature. The Vedas describe every type of eventuality of human existence. The state of desireful and desireless actions can co-exist in the beginning. As long as there is no cognition of the Reality and no knowledge of the goal, till that time actions are performed with desires. But Shrimad Bhagvad Gita is a scripture of Essential Truth. The Reality has been put forward in straight terms. Time and again, this scripture has warned against desire-motivated actions. This world-famous verse of the Gita is: Your right lies in the performance of action, never in its results. That is why you should not become an agent of the results of actions but at the same time do not be attached to inaction.