Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Akarma

Find stillness inside your busiest hour.

Work done without craving leaves no residue.

Busy hands, quiet heart.

Happiness comes from dropping the burden of being the doer.

Let go of the claim of being the doer, and act.

Do your work and drop the claim of doing.

Rest inwardly while the body goes about its work.

Act in the world while sitting lightly above it.

Let the body work; let the heart witness.

Hold your doing lightly; you are not its sole owner.

Release the heavy claim of being the only author of your life.

Sit like a witness while the weather of the mind moves.

You can be at ease in a body that is busy.

A witness's actions leave no knots.

Stand slightly apart from your own doing.

Much of what you do is nature acting through you.

Responsibility is easier to carry when ego is lighter.

Let each act end with a quiet 'not mine alone'.

Pride of authorship is the first weight of any work.

Act from stillness, and your action carries peace.

Seeing, hearing, walking: let life happen without a heavy 'I'.

Free yourself from the story that you do it all.

Not every action has to bind you.

Offered actions leave no residue.

Real work happens when the doer steps back.

Lighten your actions by lightening your ownership.

You may act all day and remain unbound.

Ordinary acts need no ego to perform them.

Agency is lent to you, not owned.

Where is the stillness in what you are doing right now?

Cease to claim the whole machine; you are one working part.

Rest, too, has its right and wrong forms.

What would your day feel like without the claim of doing?

Where could you loosen your claim of being the doer?

What are you blaming or crediting yourself for that was never only yours?

How could you work today with one foot in stillness?

Where in your day can you rest from being in charge?

You can act fully and still stand apart from the doing.

Perform fully; claim nothing.

Be an instrument of something larger than your own plan.

Act fully, and do not claim the whole credit.

Create without clinging to being the creator.

Not every stillness is rest, and not every motion is work.

Seeing yourself as an instrument of nature brings humility.

The doer is nature; the watcher is you.

You can do your best and still stand a little apart from it.

Let qualities act; you stay still.

Be active in the world and untouched at the centre.

Action is clean when desire is quiet.

Let your hands work while your mind rests.

Seeing that nature acts through you brings humility and freedom.

Responsibility without arrogance is lighter to carry.

Work as if from a quiet seat within.

The imperishable in you does not act and is not tainted.

Understanding that qualities act through you frees you from blame.

The body is a city with nine gates; you are its calm resident.

Much of what you call 'my doing' is the world moving through you.

Your actions are partly the work of qualities moving through you.

Sit lightly in your life; it runs on more than your effort.

Three things need understanding: right action, wrong action, and stillness.

See the divine in every act, and no act binds you.

Each step and breath happens through you, not by you alone.

Comfort lives where the claim of control is dropped.

Even the wise pause to ask what is action and what is rest.

Learning ripens into action that leaves no scar.

Even blinking is nature at work.

A knower of truth watches the body at work.

Whoever sees rest in labour sees clearly.