nishkama karma
निष्काम कर्म niṣkāma karmaDesireless action; renouncing the craving for the fruit of action rather than renouncing the action itself. The inner key of karma yoga, taught at 2.47.
Where this term appears
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
The answer is nishkama-karma , action without attachment to its fruit.
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
— Bhagavad Gītā 2.47 This is karma yoga , the discipline of action, and its inner key is nishkama karma , desireless action: you renounce the craving for the fruit, you do not renounce the work.
- The Four Aims of Life (Purusharthas) Essentials
…energy, while inwardly renouncing any claim on their results. This is nishkama karma , action without craving for its fruit.
- The Three Paths to Liberation: Karma, Bhakti and Jnana Essentials
…at once: act, because action is your nature and your duty, but act as nishkama karma , without desire for the fruit, offering every deed to God.
- Is the Bhagavad Gita an interpolation in the Mahabharata? Journal
Its early chapters counsel nishkama karma , disciplined action performed without attachment to its fruit, within one's own dharma .
- The Lotus in Hindu Symbolism Deities
This is the discipline the tradition calls nishkama karma , action without craving for reward, and it is the bridge between the lotus as an image and the lotus as an instruction for a life.
- Reading the Bhagavad Gita in the modern world Journal
Telang) This is nishkama karma , sometimes rendered as desireless action.
- What 'karma' doesn't mean Journal
Let not the fruit of action be your motive." This is nishkama karma , desireless action, and it only makes sense if action is free and the outcome is not owed to you.