You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty. You have got choice only over your action (karma) and not over the result of the action. So its okay to desire a favorable result but not be attached to the result and not to set conditions that only a favorable result will make me happy or content. Be unattached with your work (any kind of work), property, people, possessions... they belong to you but dont dictate your life or happiness. There are three considerations here: prescribed duties, capricious work, and inaction. Prescribed duties are activities enjoined in terms of ones acquired modes of material nature. Capricious work means actions without the sanction of authority, and inaction means not performing ones prescribed duties. The Lord advised that Arjuna not be inactive, but that he perform his prescribed duty without being attached to the result. One who is attached to the result of his work is also the cause of the action. Thus he is the enjoys or suffers of the result of such actions.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:19:47 +0000
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