Arjuna said, O Krishna, at one time you tell me to give up work and at another you tell me to work with devotion. You recommend work with devotion. Now, please tell me finally, which of the two is the better?

Unless one is in a devotional relationship with the Lord, simply renouncing things will not make one happy. The sages purified by devoted acts reach that highest and the best without delay.

Similarly, a self-realized soul engaged within this material world can see, hear, touch, smell, eat, move, sleep and breathe, but he knows that he is not the doer, that everything is being done by the energy of the Lord, and that even his own body is moving, that he himself does nothing. And that he is distanced from them.

The undeviating devoted spirit enjoys pure peace, because he surrenders the fruits of all actions to me; but the soul that acts with an opposite tendency, and is desirous of the rewards of his actions, becomes ensnared.

Nor does the Supreme Soul take on anyone’s sinful actions or pious activities. Embodied are puzzled by reason of the ignorance which veils their knowledge.

Men of settled mind in sameness and in equanimity have already conquered the conditions of life and death. They are perfect like Brahmans, they are already in Brahman.

One does not associate with the source of misery, for it is born of the contexture of the material senses along with the senses themselves. O son of Kunti, these pleasures have a commencement and an end; it is not the wise man, therefore, who delights in them.

The bliss of Brahman is all around to those sages who are desireless, anger less, mortify their bodies, control themselves, who have no longing and who have found the Self.