Does Bhagavad Gita 2.47 ask us to stop caring about results?

The verse directs attention toward responsible action while loosening attachment to its fruits. It also cautions against becoming attached to inaction. Read together, these teachings support wholehearted effort without demanding that events unfold exactly as we wish.

Planning and learning from feedback can still belong to good work. A useful contemporary application is to distinguish the care you bring to a task from your claim to control every consequence. For example, prepare carefully for an important conversation while allowing the other person to respond freely.

Swami Mukundananda's commentary adds a devotional interpretation: action and its fruits are offered to God, and pride in independent doership is relinquished. That commentary has its own theological setting; it is not presented here as Shankara's Advaita commentary.

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1. Bhagavad Gita 2.47 — translation and commentary by Swami Mukundananda

   Read the full verse and commentary. The everyday example above is our editorial application, not a scriptural quotation.

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