Bhagavad Gita Work Quotations

The Lord abides in the heart of all beings, O Arjuna, causing all beings to act (or work out their Karma) by His power of Maya as if they are (puppets of Karma) mounted on a machine.

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.

The one who does all works for Me, and to whom I am the supreme goal, who is my devotee, who has no attachment, and is free from enmity towards any being attains Me, O Arjuna.

One's inferior natural work is better than superior unnatural work. One who does the work ordained by one's inherent nature incurs no sin.

One's inferior natural work is better than superior unnatural work. Death in carrying out one's natural work is useful. Unnatural work produces too much stress.

Works do not bind Me, because I have no desire for the fruits of work.

The wise should work without attachment, for the welfare of the society.

Success in work comes quickly in this human world.

Some philosophers say that all work is full of faults and should be given up, while others say that acts of sacrifice, charity, and austerity should not be abandoned.

Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work (or Karma-yoga).

The enlightened one should inspire others by performing all works efficiently without attachment.

Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results, because by doing work without attachment one attains the Supreme.

Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly than it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.

Renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation.

Knowledge is better than mere ritualistic practice, meditation is better than mere knowledge, renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation, peace immediately follows the renunciation of (the attachment to) the fruit of work.

All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer.

A person whose all works are free from selfish desires and motives, and whose all Karma is burned up in the fire of Self-knowledge, is called a sage by the wise.

Karma does not bind one who has renounced work (by renouncing the fruits of work) through Karma-yoga; whose doubt is completely destroyed by knowledge; and who is Self-realized, O Arjuna.

Dedicating all works to Me in a spiritual frame of mind, free from desire, attachment, and mental grief, do your duty.

Attached action is selfish work that produces Karmic bondage.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.