RIGHT ACTION

There is true renunciation in right action. What we should renounce is not action, but selfish desire. We should liberate our activities from the bondage of, selfish purpose. Work should be done in a spirit of duty done, and results should not be permitted to agitate the mind. 

This unselfish and detached attitude can and should be cultivated even while we are engaged in life's activities. Continual practice of this attitude of mind will lead, in the higher stages of progress, to the elimination of the difference between. the way of Yoga and the way of sanyasa.

What is action, what is inaction? Even the wise is perplexed over this. Therefore I shall explain to you how to act, knowing which you will be saved from evil.

IV-16.

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