Doing Our Duty For The Sake Of God - Prabhupada 0356

660401 - Lecture BG 02.48-49 - New York

Saṅgaṁ tyaktvā. Saṅgaṁ tyaktvā means "Don't be associated with the result of the work. Let the result come, whatever it may be, but you have to do your duty nicely and for the sake of God." Saṅgaṁ tyaktvā. Kartṛtvā abhiniveṣam ca tyaktvā yoga-sthas taṁ karmāṇi kuru yuddhadi. Kartṛtvā. Kartṛtvā means that you are the doer. ""Forget this. You are not the doer. You are being ordered to do it."

Just like there is an example that you take a rod and kill a snake. Now, the rod is practically killing the snake, but actually the rod is not responsible because the man who has taken the rod, who is killing the snake, he is responsible for killing the snake, not the rod. So we have to become the rod in the hand of the Supreme. Then all the reaction of our work will be . . . I will not be responsible for the reaction. The Lord will be responsible for that.