"The fruits of action," as the Bhagavad Gita puts it, are emphatically not the point of action.
"However, implementation and monitoring will need to be in place over a longer period before we can see the fruits of action.
Far from leading to worldly renunciation, the call to Transcendental Meditation he saw was central to the message of the Bhavagad-Gita represented a "dynamic philosophy" intended to "inspire a disheartened man and strengthen a normal mind... he who practises Transcendental Meditation and becomes acquainted with the inner divine consciousness truly enjoys the greatest fruits of action in the world".
Never let the fruits of action be your motive" (2.47).
The essential message is simple: to be happy, we must free ourselves from attachment with our physical bodies and also with the fruits of action.
So, odds are we're not going to do the right thing all the time, or most of the time, or maybe only one time in ten... nevertheless, it is of course the trying that matters, and no one said that better than Mahatma Gandhi: "It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important.
2. Skill in action: The whole essence of the Bhagavad Gita is to act without being attached to the fruit of the action.
We are distracted, attached to pursuing the fruit of our action.
At first you may feel difficult to follow, but gradually you will concentrate and the fruit of this action will be sweet.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells his friend and disciple Arjuna, "You have a right to the actions, but not to the fruit of your actions".
2. The Hindu teachings in the Bhagavad Gita encourage the reader to "detach from the fruit of your actions".
