Geetanjali

Bhagavad Geeta 4.20

Sanskrit

त्यक्त्वा कर्मफलासङ्गं नित्यतृप्तो निराश्रयः। कर्मण्यभिप्रवृत्तोऽपि नैव किञ्चित्करोति सः।।4.20।।

tyaktvā karma-phalāsaṅgaṁ nitya-tṛipto nirāśhrayaḥ karmaṇyabhipravṛitto ’pi naiva kiñchit karoti saḥ

Meaning

Focus on your effort, not outcomes. When you detach from results and act with full commitment anyway, you free yourself from anxiety and perform at...

Translation

Having given up attachment to the results of action, he who is ever-content, dependent on nothing, does not really do anything even though he is engaged in action.

Related Topics

This verse relates to the following principles from the Bhagavad Geeta: