Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita on Success and Skill in Action
Where modern searchers ask about success, the Gita talks about yoga, skill, and a mind that is not enslaved by gain.
The text does not offer a prosperity formula. It relocates success from the fruit to the quality of action and understanding.
Bhagavad Gita 2.47
The most-cited verse on action without claim to 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 2.50
Calls yoga “skill in action.”
Action with desire for fruition (sakama) is far inferior to this Buddhi Yoga. Therefore, O Dhananjaya! Take refuge in Buddhi; those who desire fruits are pitiable (wretched).
Bhagavad Gita 6.1
Links yoga to performing required action rather than abandoning it.
Shri Bhagavan said: He who performs obligatory action without depending on its fruits—he is a renunciant and a Yogi, not he who has merely abandoned the sacred fire and rituals.
Bhagavad Gita 18.46
Connects work to worship of the source of all beings.
By worshipping Him (the Paramatman) through one's own duty—He from whom all beings have arisen and by whom this entire world is pervaded—a person attains perfection.
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