1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 18 - Moksha Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 49

The entire content of this mail is from Shri V N Gopala Desikan's  Srimad Bhagavad Gita, published by Vishishtadvaita Research Centre, Chennai and The Bhagavad Gita by Swami Chidbhavananda published by Ramakrishna Mission

The ways and means of liberation are now expounded

Karma Yoga is karma Sanyasa 49-57

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 18 - Moksha Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 49

Asaktta buddhih sarvatra jitatma vigatspruhah I

Naishkarma  siddhim paramaam  sanyasena adhigachhati II sloka 49

असक्त्त बुद्धिः सर्वत्र जितात्म विगत्  स्पृहः I 
नैश्कर्म सिद्धिं परमां सन्यासेन अदिगच्छति II श्लोक 49

He whose intellect is unattached everywhere, who has subdued his self, from whom desire has disappeared, he by renunciation attains the supreme state of freedom from action.

A karma yogi is engaged in intense activities. One form of activity succeeds another even as the hour of the clock succeeds the other. He seems to know of no rest. This is the spectacle he presents to an onlooker. But what actually he is at the core of his heart needs to be studied. He does not identify himself with any place or residence. Wherever he happens to be placed, is accepted by him as his residence. Or to vie wit in any other way, he does not get attached to any place anywhere. Again, things are being handled in abundance by him. As they come in profusely, even so are they disbursed. No modification of any kind do they produce in the mind of the yogi. Water flows in on one side of a bridge and it flows out on the other side. The bridge is neither the recipient of water nor its distributor; it is unaffected by the flow of the river. The yogi, in that fashion, keeps his mind unaffected by the things of the world. He takes no note of the people drawn to him, or indifferent to him or opposed to him. This is the state of the intellect unattached everywhere. Thoughts and feelings rise in the minds of ordinary people even as waves on the sea. But the mind of the yogi maintains a different state. It is like a wave-less sea. This placid state is due to his mastery over his self. Objects of sense pleasure may be displayed in plenty before an innocent child; but the child does not cast a covetous look at them because it has not yet developed a desire for them. A yogi also does not behold those objects with covetousness since he has outgrown all desire for any sense enjoyments. This man who is obviously the doer of great activities is in reality a sanyasin as his mind is completely unattached, his individuality subdued and his desires utterly annihilated.