sheet of water suddenly fulfills all the functions of a well, so he who knows the ultimate goal of the Vedas receives all the benefits they provide.
You have the right to fulfill the duties which fall to you, but not to enjoy the fruit of your acts. Never believe that you are the cause of the consequences of the action, and at no time do you seek to flee your duty. Be firm in yoga. Do your duty without being bound by success or failure. This equality of soul, we call it yoga.
Free yourself from any material act by the service of devotion, absorb yourself in it. “Stingy” are those who aspire to the fruits of their deeds. Devotional service can, in present life, free those who engage in it from the consequences of action, good or bad. So strive to achieve the art of acting through yoga. Absorbed in devotional service, the sage takes refuge in the Lord and, renouncing the fruits of his acts in this world, frees himself from the cycle of death and rebirth. He thus arrives at the state which is beyond suffering.
When your intelligence has passed through the thick forest of illusion, all that you have heard, all that you could still hear, will be indifferent to you. When your mind will no longer be distracted by the flowery language of the Vedas, when it is completely absorbed in spiritual realization, then you will be in union with the Divine Being.
When a man frees himself from the thousands of material desires created by his mind, when he is satisfied in his true self, it is because he is fully aware of his spiritual identity.
Whoever the three forms of suffering here below no longer affect, whom the joys of life no longer intoxicate, whom attachment, fear and anger have left, this one is held to be a wise with a firm mind. He who, free from all bond, rejoices no more in happiness than he grieves over unhappiness, he is firmly established in absolute knowledge. He who, like a turtle which retracts its limbs to the bottom of its shell, can detach the senses from their objects, this one possesses true knowledge. Even apart from material pleasures, the embodied soul can still feel some desire for them. But let her taste a higher joy, and she will lose that desire, in order to remain in the spiritual consciousness.
The senses are strong and impetuous. They even delight the mind of the man of wisdom who wants to master them. Whoever restricts his senses and becomes absorbed in Me, proves a sure intelligence. By contemplating the objects of the senses, man becomes attached, from which is born lust, and lust, anger. Anger calls for illusion, and illusion causes memory to be lost. When memory goes astray, intelligence is lost, and man again falls into the ocean of material existence. Whoever masters his senses by observing the regulating principles of freedom, receives from the Lord his full mercy, and is thus freed from all attachment as from all aversion.