Speaker: Śrī Kṛṣṇa
कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन ।
सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः ॥९॥
kāryam ity eva yat karma
niyataṁ kriyate 'rjuna
saṅgaṁ tyaktvā phalaṁ caiva
sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ
Word for word (synonyms)
- kāryam
- must be done
- iti
- thus
- eva
- thus
- yat
- that which
- karma
- work
- niyatam
- prescribed
- kriyate
- performed
- arjuna
- O Arjuna
- saṅgam
- association
- tyaktvā
- giving up
- phalam
- result
- ca
- also
- eva
- certainly
- saḥ
- that
- tyāgaḥ
- renunciation
- sāttvikaḥ
- in the mode of goodness
- mataḥ
- in My opinion
Translation
But he who performs his prescribed duty only because it ought to be done, and renounces all attachment to the fruit—his renunciation is of the nature of goodness, O Arjuna.
Defined in the Gītā
Renunciation
What is real renunciation?
The Supreme Lord said, To give up the results of all activities is called renunciation [tyāga] by the wise. And that state is called the renounced order of life [sannyāsa] by great learned men.
Purport
Prescribed duties must be performed with this mentality. One should act without attachment for the result; he should be disassociated from the modes of work. A man working in Kṛṣṇa consciousness in a factory does not associate himself with the work of the factory, nor with the workers of the factory. He simply works for Kṛṣṇa. And when he gives up the result for Kṛṣṇa, he is acting transcendentally.
What this verse teaches
Tyāga in goodness
- Subsection
- Renunciation (tyāga) in three modes
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International.