You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.
Bhagavad Gita
A Hindu scripture of dialogue on duty, devotion, and detachment, traditionally set within the Mahabharata.
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Contacts with matter make the soul endure cold and heat, pleasure and pain; learn to endure them, O Arjuna.
The soul is neither born, nor does it die; nor having once existed, does it ever cease to be.
One must deliver himself with the help of his mind, and not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.
From wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the Self.
Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.
Perform your duty equipoised, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.
To those who are constantly devoted and who worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.