BG 2.48
Be steadfast in performing your duties, abandoning all attachment to success and failure - such equanimity is called Yoga.
सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते
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yoga-sthaḥ — being steadfast in yog
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yoga
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sthaḥ
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kuru — perform
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karmāṇi — duties
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saṅgaṁ — attachment
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tyaktvā — having abandoned
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dhanañjaya — Arjuna
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siddhy-asiddhyoḥ — in success and failure
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siddhy
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asiddhyoḥ
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samo — equal, equipoised
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bhūtvā — becoming
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samatvaṁ — equanimity
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yoga — Yoga
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uchyate — is called
You have a right to perform your duty, but you are not entitled to the fruit of your actions. Do not let results be your motivation, and avoid attachment to inaction. Be steadfast in performing your duties, abandoning all attachment to success and failure - such equanimity is called Yoga. Stay far away from inferior actions which seek reward, and seek to establish the intellect in the refuge of divine wisdom. Miserly are those whose only motive is the fruit of their actions.
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