Chapter 3 · Verse 19 · Karma Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 3.19
Sanskrit
तस्मादसक्तः सततं कार्यं कर्म समाचर। असक्तो ह्याचरन्कर्म परमाप्नोति पूरुषः।।3.19।।
Transliteration
tasmād asaktaḥ satataṁ kāryaṁ karma samāchara asakto hyācharan karma param āpnoti pūruṣhaḥ
Word by Word
Krishna reveals the paradox that liberates: perform your duty with full intensity, yet hold nothing in your grip. The unattached performer of action doesn't struggle against results or cling to outcomes—they flow with dharma itself, and in that freedom, the Supreme is naturally realized.
This is not laziness or indifference, but the highest discipline—doing everything fully while being bound by nothing. When you act without the suffocating weight of attachment, work itself becomes the path to the Divine, and modern life's constant pressure to 'succeed' transforms into purposeful, peaceful engagement.
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