The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
The Philosophy of Action - Sloka 16-22
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 4 -JnanaKarmaSanyasa Yoga - Sloka 19
Yasya sarve samarambhah kam sam kalpa varjitah ।
Jnan agni dagdha karmanam tam ahuh panditam budhah ।।
यस्य सर्वे समारम्भाः काम सं कल्प वर्जिताः ।
ज्ञान अग्नि दग्ध कर्माणं तं आहुः पण्डितं बुधाः।। १९
Whose doings are all devoid of design and desire for results, and whose actions are all burnt by the fire of knowledge, him, the sages call wise.
Action actuated by the design and desire has the power to bind the doer. But if the doer of action assumes the attitude that all actions emanate from Iswwara and that whatever takes place through him as a mere instrument, is all the glory of the Lord, he is not bound by action. There is neither agency nor egoism in him. As a burnt string may retain its form but is unfit for tying, the doings of the yogi donot bind him. They are all burnt away in the fire of the knowledge that God alone is the real author of all that takes place in the universe. He is called wise by the sages because of his being endowed with this supreme knowledge.
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