— Bhagavad Gita 2.59 (tr. Swami Swarupananda, 1909)
About this quote
This verse comes from Chapter 2 of the Bhagavad Gita, Sankhya Yoga (The Yoga of Knowledge) — the Gita in miniature: the immortality of the Self, the discipline of equanimity, and the first statement of acting without attachment to results.
The Bhagavad Gita — ‘the Song of the Lord’ — is the dialogue between Krishna and the warrior Arjuna set within the Mahabharata, and one of the most influential spiritual texts ever composed. English translation by Swami Swarupananda (1909), a public-domain rendering from the Sanskrit; the exact chapter and verse are cited with this quote.
