The Blessed Lord said: He who restrains the organs of action but continues to brood in his mind over the objects of sensual desire (enjoyed through them) - such a deluded person is called a hypocrite.6
But he who, controlling all sense organs and becoming non-attached, lives a life of communion through dedicated action- such a person excels. 7
O son of Kunti ! In this world all actions, unless they are done as an offering to God, become causes of bondage. Therefore, work for the sake of God without personal attachments. 9
Worshipped by sacrifices, the Devas will give you the desired objects of enjoyment. They are verily thieves who enjoy their gifts without giving their share in return. 12
Those persons who eat what is left after sacrifice, are released from all sin. But those who cook food for the self (without sharing with others), such degraded man eat sin. 13
Vain is the life of that sinful and self-indulgent person who fails to fulfil his obligations in this cycle of mutual inter-dependence and service. 16
He has no object to gain here in this world by action. Nor does he lose anything by abstaining from action. For him, there is no dependence on any created being for any object of his. 18
Whatever the noblest persons do, the ordinary man imitates. The standard they set, the ordinary men follow. 21
In all the three worlds there is nothing. O son of Pritha, that is binding on me as duty. Neither is there anything that I have to gain, nor anything that I cannot gain. Still I am always engaged in work. 22
O scion of the Bharata race! Just as ignorant men do action out of attachment, so let enlightened ones perform the same unattached, with the good of the world in view. 25
Men, deluded by the dispositions of Nature, get attached to work prompted by these dispositions. Those who know the whole Truth should not unsettle these dull-witted men of imperfect understanding. 29
Offering all your actions to Me, your mind in unison with the spirit and free from desires and egotism, you fight without the slightest touch of hatred or excitement. 30
But those who disparage this doctrine of mine and discard it, know such senseless men, blind to all wisdom, as lost. 32
It is lust, it is anger, born of Rajoguna, insatiable and prompting man to great sin. Know this to be the enemy. 37
As fire is enveloped by smoke, mirror by dirt, and the embryo by the placenta, so is knowledge overcast by lust. 38
The senses are great, they say. Superior to the senses is the mind, and superior even to the mind is the intellect. What a superior even to the intellect is He, the Atman. 42
Thus knowing Him who is superior even to the Buddhi, and controlling the lower self with the higher, kill that tough enemy in the form of lust, O mighty-armed Arjuna! 43
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