The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
Atman is beyond Action - sloka 17-18
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 3 -Karma Yoga - Sloka 18
Naiva tasya krutena arthah na akrutena iha kashchana I
Na chasya sarva bhuteshu kashchid arthavyapa ashryah II sloka 18
नैव तस्य कृतेन अर्थः न अकृतेन इह कश्चन ।
न चास्य सर्व भूतेषु कश्चिद् अर्थव्यप आश्रयः ।। श्लोक १८
He has no purpose to gain by work done or left undone, nor has he to rely on any end.
Thus, for such a one there is no purpose, ie.,nothing to be gained from work done as a means for the vision of the self, nor is he subject to any evil or calamity from work left undone, because his vision of the self does not rest on any external means. To such a person who has turned by himself away from non-intelligent matter, which is different from the self, there is nothing acceptable as a purpose to be gained from the constituents of Prakriti and their products; only if there were such a purpose, there would be the need for the means of retreat from it. For, the adoption of the means is only for effecting such a retreat. But he is already liberated.
Thus, for such a one there is no purpose, ie.,nothing to be gained from work done as a means for the vision of the self, nor is he subject to any evil or calamity from work left undone, because his vision of the self does not rest on any external means. To such a person who has turned by himself away from non-intelligent matter, which is different from the self, there is nothing acceptable as a purpose to be gained from the constituents of Prakriti and their products; only if there were such a purpose, there would be the need for the means of retreat from it. For, the adoption of the means is only for effecting such a retreat. But he is already liberated.
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