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Bhagavad-Gītā 3.30-32
"Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with full knowledge of Me, without desires for profit, with no claims to proprietorship, and free from lethargy, fight." "Those persons who execute their duties according to My injunctions and who follow this teaching faithfully, without envy, become free from the bondage of fruitive actions." "But those who, out of envy, disregard these teachings and do not follow them regularly are to be considered bereft of all knowledge, befooled, and ruined in their endeavors for perfection." https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/30/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/31/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/3/32/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.13-14
"According to the three modes of material nature and the work associated with them, the four divisions of human society are created by Me. And although I am the creator of this system, you should know that I am yet the nondoer, being unchangeable." "There is no work that affects Me; nor do I aspire for the fruits of action. One who understands this truth about Me also does not become entangled in the fruitive reactions of work." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/13/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/14/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.16-18
"Even the intelligent are bewildered in determining what is action and what is inaction. Now I shall explain to you what action is, knowing which you shall be liberated from all misfortune." "The intricacies of action are very hard to understand. Therefore one should know properly what action is, what forbidden action is and what inaction is." "One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/16/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/17/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/18/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.19-22
"One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge." "Abandoning all attachment to the results of his activities, ever satisfied and independent, he performs no fruitive action, although engaged in all kinds of undertakings." "Such a man of understanding acts with mind and intelligence perfectly controlled, gives up all sense of proprietorship over his possessions and acts only for the bare necessities of life. Thus working, he is not affected by sinful reactions." "He who is satisfied with gain which comes of its own accord, who is free from duality and does not envy, who is steady in both success and failure, is never entangled, although performing actions." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/19/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/20/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/21/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/22/
Bhagavad-Gītā 4.37
"As a blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities." https://vedy.online/en/bg/4/37/
Bhagavad-Gītā 5.12
"The steadily devoted soul attains unadulterated peace because he offers the result of all activities to Me; whereas a person who is not in union with the Divine, who is greedy for the fruits of his labor, becomes entangled." https://vedy.online/en/bg/5/12/
Bhagavad-Gītā 5.14
"The embodied spirit, master of the city of his body, does not create activities, nor does he induce people to act, nor does he create the fruits of action. All this is enacted by the modes of material nature." https://vedy.online/en/bg/5/14/
Bhagavad-Gītā 8.3
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahman, and his eternal nature is called adhyātma, the self. Action pertaining to the development of the material bodies of the living entities is called karma, or fruitive activities." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/3/
Bhagavad-Gītā 8.4
"O best of the embodied beings, the physical nature, which is constantly changing, is called adhibhūta [the material manifestation]. The universal form of the Lord, which includes all the demigods, like those of the sun and moon, is called adhidaiva. And I, the Supreme Lord, represented as the Supersoul in the heart of every embodied being, am called adhiyajña [the Lord of sacrifice]." https://vedy.online/en/bg/8/4/
Bhagavad-Gītā 16.11-12
"They believe that to gratify the senses is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until the end of life their anxiety is immeasurable. Bound by a network of hundreds of thousands of desires and absorbed in lust and anger, they secure money by illegal means for sense gratification." Bhagavad-Gītā 16.11-12
Bhagavad-Gītā 16.16-18
"Thus perplexed by various anxieties and bound by a network of illusions, they become too strongly attached to sense enjoyment and fall down into hell." "Self-complacent and always impudent, deluded by wealth and false prestige, they sometimes proudly perform sacrifices in name only, without following any rules or regulations." "Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demons become envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in their own bodies and in the bodies of others, and blaspheme against the real religion." https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/16/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/17/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/18/
Bhagavad-Gītā 16.21-24
"There are three gates leading to this hell – lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul." "The man who has escaped these three gates of hell, O son of Kuntī, performs acts conducive to self-realization and thus gradually attains the supreme destination." "He who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination." "One should therefore understand what is duty and what is not duty by the regulations of the scriptures. Knowing such rules and regulations, one should act so that he may gradually be elevated." https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/21/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/22/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/23/ & https://vedy.online/en/bg/16/24/