दूरेण ह्यवरं कर्म बुद्धियोगाद्धनञ्जय।बुद्धौ शरणमन्विच्छ कृपणाः फलहेतवः ॥

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

• 2.47Your right is only to work, but not to its results; do not let the results of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.
• 2.48Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in success and failure; evenness of mind is called Yoga.

• 2.49Far lower than the Yoga of wisdom is action, O Arjuna. Seek thou refuge in wisdom; wretched are those whose motive is the fruit.

• 2.50Endowed with wisdom and evenness of mind, one casts off in this life both good and evil deeds; therefore, devote yourself to Yoga; Yoga is skill in action.
• 2.51The wise, possessing knowledge, having abandoned the fruits of their actions, and being freed from the bonds of birth, go to the place which is beyond all evil.
• 2.52When your intellect passes beyond the mire of delusion, then you will attain indifference to what has been heard and what has yet to be heard.
• 2.53When your intellect, which is perplexed by the Vedic texts you have read, stands immovable and steady in the Self, then you will attain Self-realization.

hi

certainly

karma

reward-seeking actions

avaram

inferior

buddhau

divine knowledge and insight

dūreṇa

(discrad) from far away

anvichchha

seek

dhanañjaya

Arjun

śharaṇam

refuge

buddhi-yogāt

with the intellect established in Divine knowledge

kṛipaṇāḥ

miserly

phala-hetavaḥ

those seeking fruits of their work