You have the right to action, but never to its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.

Bhagavad Gita 2.47 · ~500 BCE

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Dharma

Dharma is the most translated and most mistranslated word in Indian thought. It is not religion. It is not duty in the dull civic sense. It is the right action — for you, in your nature, at this stage of your life, with the people in front of you. The Gita is a single conversatio…

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