Action Without Motive

A person whose reluctance to fight is based on fear or squeamishness does not then, in chrishna's view, have the right to renounce it. And so a moment later, krishna formulates the principle of action. He says, therefore, arise o, son of kunti, arjuna, resolved on battle treating alike pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat. To action alone hast thou a right never at all, to its fruits. Let not the s of action be thy motive. Neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction fixed in yoga that is to say, in union with the principle, with the self, do