Chapter 4 verse 21-23
“Without desire or hope, with the mind self controlled,
having abandoned all sense of possessions, doing mere bodily action, he incurs
no sin. Content with what comes to him without effort; free from pair of
opposites and envy, even-minded in success and failure, though acting he is not
bound. Of one who is devoid of attachment, who is liberated, whose mind is established
in knowledge, which acts for the sake of sacrifice, all his actions are
dissolved”
When Krishna asks to be contented with what comes without
effort, he is not asking people not to act. He is asking people to not spend
effort on mental attachments to the action. This is an important distinction to
be understood by everyone. If there is no mental attachment to the action or
fruits of the action, then the action doesn’t have any side effect on one’s
psyche. We have covered all other attributes of ‘Unaction’ in earlier verses.
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