The service of love and devotion offered to Krishna, God, the Supreme Person is the manifestation of love for God. Blessed are those who act for God, for their acts have no effect or consequence, good or bad.

In truth, those who act in the consciousness of God automatically escape the imprisonment of karma. If they intend for the Lord alone, all their acts, they neither undergo nor suffer from their effects. Although they still continue to act, they shine with keen intelligence among men, because they do it for God. Their actions are therefore pure, because they do not entail any material consequences.

Those who are immersed in pure spirituality have nothing to fear, because they know themselves to be the servants or servants of the Supreme Eternal, Krishna, and never hesitate to act in the consciousness of God or consciousness of Krishna. All their acts, free from all material desires, aim only at the pleasure of God, and their only consequence is absolute happiness. By acting in full awareness of their subordination to Krishna God, the Supreme Person, they are immunized against all the material consequences of their actions.

This is the perfection of love for God.

These are the reasons why God advises us not to attach ourselves to the fruits of action.

In truth, three factors must be considered here: duty, independent action, and inaction.

The prescribed duties correspond to the obligations which one must face as long as one suffers the grip of the three gunas, the three attributes and modes of influence of the material nature: virtue, passion and ignorance.

The independent actions correspond to those that are carried out without taking into account the instructions given to us by the Vedas (the original Holy Scriptures) and the spiritual masters.

Inaction is refusing to do one’s duty.

The Lord advises us not to take the path of inaction, but rather to act according to our duty without clinging to the results, for those who cling to the fruits of action take upon themselves the responsibility for their actions, and must therefore enjoy or suffer their consequences.

The prescribed duties can be of three kinds; routine duties, emergency duties and purposeful occupations.

Routine duties are to be performed according to the norms of the Vedas, and without attachment to the fruits thereof, because these are imposed duties, and to perform them is virtue.