karmāṇi

योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय

karmāṇi — duties

Steady in yoga, do your work — letting go of attachment, even in success and failure alike. That evenness is what yoga means.

न बुद्धिभेदं जनयेदज्ञानां कर्मसङ्गिनाम्

karma-saṅginām — who are attached to fruitive actions

The wise should not unsettle the minds of the unknowing who are attached to their work. Let them instead be encouraged in all they do.

प्रकृतेः क्रियमाणानि गुणैः कर्माणि सर्वशः

karmāṇi — activities

All actions are carried out by the strands of nature. But one deluded by the sense of self thinks: I am the doer.

मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा

karmāṇi — works

Surrendering all your actions to me, your thoughts resting on what is highest, free of longing and free of “mine” — fight.

न मां कर्माणि लिम्पन्ति न मे कर्मफले स्पृहा

karmāṇi — activities

Actions do not stain me, and I have no craving for their fruit. One who knows me in this way is not bound by action either.

सर्वाणीन्द्रियकर्माणि प्राणकर्माणि चापरे

karmāṇi — functions

Others offer every function of the senses and of the breath into the fire of self-restraint, kindled by knowledge.

योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणं ज्ञानसंछिन्नसंशयम्

karmāṇi — actions

One who has given up action through practice, whose doubts are cut away by knowledge, who is established in the self — actions do not bind that person.

ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः

karmāṇi — all actions

One who acts having placed all actions in Brahman, having let go of attachment, is not stained by wrongdoing — as a lotus leaf is not wetted by water.

सर्वकर्माणि मनसा संन्यस्यास्ते सुखं वशी

karmāṇi — activities

Having renounced all actions with the mind, the self-governed one dwells at ease. The embodied one in this city of nine gates neither acts nor causes action.

न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः

kartṛitvam — sense of doership

The Lord creates neither doership nor actions for anyone, nor the joining of action to its fruit. It is one's own nature that acts.

न च मां तानि कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय

karmāṇi — actions

And these actions do not bind me, Arjuna. I am seated as though indifferent, unattached to them.

ये तु सर्वाणि कर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्पराः

karmāṇi — actions

But those who, giving all their actions over to me, take me as the highest and worship me with a mind turned nowhere else —

अभ्यासेऽप्यसमर्थोऽसि मत्कर्मपरमो भव

karmāṇi — work

If you are unable even to practise, then make my work your highest aim. Doing what is to be done for my sake, you will reach perfection.

प्रकृत्यैव च कर्माणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः

karmāṇi — actions

One who sees that all actions are performed by nature alone, and that the self is not the doer, truly sees.

एतां दृष्टिमवष्टभ्य नष्टात्मानोऽल्पबुद्धयः

karmāṇaḥ — actions

Holding this view, their selves lost, their understanding small, they arise as cruel doers, working for the ruin of the world.

एतान्यपि तु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलानि च

karmāṇi — activities

Even these actions should be done having let go of attachment and of their fruits. This is my settled view.

न हि देहभृता शक्यं त्यक्तुं कर्माण्यशेषतः

karmāṇi — activities

It is not possible for one who bears a body to give up action entirely. But one who lets go of the fruit of action is called a renouncer.

ब्राह्मणक्षत्रियविशां शूद्राणां च परंतप

karmāṇi — duties

The work of the priestly, the warrior, the merchant and the working classes is divided according to the qualities born of their own natures, Arjuna.

सर्वकर्माण्यपि सदा कुर्वाणो मद्व्यपाश्रयः

karmāṇi — actions

Though always performing every kind of action, one who takes full refuge in me reaches by my grace the imperishable, unchanging state.