The deluded ones, who restrain their organs of action but mentally dwell upon the sense enjoyment, are called hypocrites.
Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction.
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.
A Karma-yogi performs action by body, mind, intellect, and senses, without attachment (or ego), only for self-purification.
The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
Thus many types of sacrifice are described in the Vedas. Know them all to be born from Karma or the action of body, mind, and senses. Knowing this, you shall attain nirvana.
Even the wise are confused about what is action and what is inaction.
What is the need for this detailed knowledge, O Arjuna? I continually support the entire universe by a small fraction of My energy.
Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do.
Mentally offering all actions to Me, be devoted to Me. Resorting to equanimity, always fix your mind on Me.
Whoever hears this with faith and without cavil becomes free from sin, and attains heaven (or the higher regions for those whose actions are pure).
The true nature of action is very difficult to understand. Therefore, one should know the nature of attached action, the nature of detached action, and also the nature of forbidden action.
All actions in their entirety culminate in knowledge.
Free from desires, mind and senses under control, renouncing all proprietorship, doing mere bodily action, one does not incur sin (or Karmic reaction).
The one who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is a wise person.
Attached action is selfish work that produces Karmic bondage.
Whatever is endowed with glory, brilliance, and power; know that to be a manifestation of a fraction of My splendor.
Whatever action, whether right or wrong, one performs by thought, word, and deed; these are its five causes.
The knowledge sacrifice is superior to any material sacrifice, O Arjuna. Because, all actions in their entirety culminate in knowledge.
Because, if I do not engage in action relentlessly, people would follow My path in every way.
Faith in sacrifice, charity, and austerity is also called SAT. The action for the sake of the Supreme is verily termed as SAT.
No one becomes a Karma-yogi who has not renounced the selfish motive behind an action.
A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action has understanding among men and discipline in all action he performs.