Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita on Detachment
Detachment in the Gita is not indifference to duty. It is freedom from the binding claim to results, objects, and enmity.
Sanskrit terms such as vairāgya and asaṅga are broader than the English word “detachment.”
Bhagavad Gita 2.47
Do not be attached to inaction, and do not claim the fruit.
You have the right to action only, never to its fruits. Do not be the cause of the fruits of action, nor let attachment to inaction arise in you.
Bhagavad Gita 5.10
One who acts offering action to Brahman, abandoning attachment, is not stained.
He who performs all actions offering them to Brahman and abandoning attachment—such a man is not tainted by sin, like a lotus leaf by water.
Bhagavad Gita 12.13–14
Describes a devotee without hatred, friendly and compassionate, free of possessiveness and egoism.
He who is free from hatred toward all beings, who is a friend to all and compassionate; who is free from possessiveness and ego, equal in pleasure and pain, and forbearing. That self-restrained yogi of firm resolve who is ever content, who has offered his mind and intellect to Me—such a devotee of Mine is dear to Me.
Bhagavad Gita 18.23
Defines prescribed action done without attachment, without love or hate, and without desire for fruit as sāttvika.
That action which is prescribed (by scripture), free from attachment, and performed by one who does not desire the fruit, without any attachment or aversion—that action is called Sattvic.
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