The Lord teaches us how to ensure that our actions have no consequences.
For those who adore Me, abandon all their actions to Me and devote themselves to Me without sharing, absorbed in devotional service and constantly meditating on Me, for that one I am the Liberator who will soon snatch him from the ocean of deaths and rebirths. Simply fix your mind on Me, God, the Supreme Person, and lodge in Me all your intelligence. Thus, no doubt, you will always live in Me. If you cannot attach your mind to Me without failing, observe the regulative principles of Bhakti-yoga (devotional service offered to Krishna).
If, however, you cannot submit to the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga, then try to consecrate your works to Me, for by acting for Me you will attain the perfect state.
And if you cannot even act in this consciousness, then strive to renounce all fruits of your acts, and in the soul to establish your consciousness.
But if you cannot comply with this practice either, then cultivate knowledge. Superior to knowledge, however, is meditation, and superior to meditation is renunciation of the fruits of deeds, for this renunciation can bestow all peace for the mind.
The one who in no way depends on the modes of material action, the pure being, expert in everything, free from all anxiety, free from suffering, and who does not seek the fruit of his actions, that one, My devotee , is very dear to me.
Material nature is the cause of all the material acts of man, and of their consequences.
Material nature, like distinct beings, know it, has no beginning. Their mutations and the three gunas (the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature: virtue, passion and ignorance) have no other origin than material nature.
Nature is said to be the cause of all material acts and their consequences; the distinct being, for him, is the cause of the various pleasures and sufferings he experiences in this world.
Thus, the separate being borrows various ways of existence within material nature and enjoys the three gunas there, because he touches that nature. He then experiences suffering and pleasure in various forms of life.
He who can see that it is the body, born of the material nature, which performs all action, that the inner soul never acts, he indeed sees.
Fight out of duty, without counting your joys or sorrows, loss or gain, victory or defeat; thus you will never incur sin.
Be firm in yoga. Do your duty without being bound by either success or failure. This equality of soul is called yoga.
Free yourself from any material act through devotional service, absorb yourself in it. “Misers” those who aspire to the fruits of their deeds.
One who has realized his spiritual identity does not pursue any self-interest in fulfilling his duties, nor does he seek to run away from his obligations. Thus, man must act out of a sense of duty, detached from the fruit of his acts, because by the act free from attachment, one reaches the Absolute.
Under the influence of the three gunas (the three attributes of material nature: virtue, passion and ignorance), the soul led astray by the false ego (identification with its body and the desire to dominate matter and material nature) believes itself to be the author of its acts, when in reality they are performed by nature.