Bhagavad Gita: Chapter II : Verse 49

Soak the intellect in consciousness

Doorenahyavaram Karma Buddhi Yoga Dhananjaya|
Buddhau Sharanaman Viccha Kripanah Phalahetavaha||

Sri Krishna tells Arjuna that pitiable is the person who does actions in expectation of results. It is definitely far inferior to the action done with the intellect united with the divine and held in a state of surrender. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

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Stand in yoga and do your work

Yogasthah Kuru Karmani Sangam Tyakthwa Dhananjaya
Sidhya Siddhyo Samo Bhuthwa Samathwam Yoga Uchyate
Standing steadily in yoga, with your individual consciousness connected with the consciousness in every moment oh Arjuna, do your duties without attaching yourself to the results of your actions. The result can be currently favourable or unfavourable. If you get either excited by the benefits or put off by the disconcerting results, the disturbed mind will affect the action happening in the present moment.
Accepting victory and defeat on an equal plane, forge ahead as this equanimity of mind is only called yoga, says Sri Krishna to Arjuna. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

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Be Rooted in Yoga

Yogasthah Kuru Karmani Sangam Tyaktwa Dhananjaya|
Siddhya Siddhyo Samo Bhuthwa Samathwam Yoga Uchyate||

Oh Arjuna, the way to do action is by rooting the mind in Yoga or union with the supreme consciousness. You should be non-attached to victories and defeats, successes and failures which may be the result of your actions. If you have an equanimity in the face of success or failure, then that Samatwa or equality is called Yoga. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

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Do your duty and that's it

Karmanyevadhikarasthe Maphaleshu Kadachana|

Ma karma Phalahe Turbhuhu Matesangosthwakarmani||

The most famous verse that summarises the Bhagavad Gita, tells us that we have the authority only over our action. we have all the right to give our 100 per cent of being to any action and no control over the results of our action whatsoever. The student can study excellently well for an exam and that is up to him. He may get lesser marks than expected and the reasons may be beyond him.

At the same time, Krishna says, never consider yourself as the cause for the results of your activities (if you have given your 100 per cent effort, that is!) and never get attached to the idea of escaping from the work you are supposed to do in your life. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

(A pony going about its work of taking a pilgrim around the parikrama at Mt. Kailash.)

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The well and the pond

Yavanartha Udapane Sarvatah Samplutodake|

Taavan Sarveshu Vedeshu Brahmanasya Vijanathaha||

If you can take water out of a small well for your needs, you can take more of the same water from a big fresh water lake. Likewise, the wisdom that you may get out of reading the Vedas, you can get all of it in a person who has realised the supreme self within. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

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Transcend the qualities

Traigunya Vishaya Vedaha Nistraigunyo Bhavarjuna
Nirdwandwo Nithyasathvasthaha Niryogakshema Athmavan

Matter or Prakriti, nature is subject to constant modifications of the three gunas - Satwa - tranquili, Rajas - Dynamic and Tamas - Inert. The vedas concern themselves with these three modes of nature. Be beyond these three phases, Arjuna. Rise beyond the duality of opposites of pleasure and pain, light and darkness, divine in the unchanging reality called consciousness. Aspire not for uniting yourself to actions that give you gains nor be anxious about protecting them. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

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Lost souls

Bhogaishwarya Prasaktanam Tayapahrita Chetasam
Vyavasayathmika Buddhihi Samadhau Na Vidheeyate

For a mind that wanders behind material sense enjoyments and wealth, the mind is stolen away and dispersed wastefully. For such people who do not have the steady wisdom to be united at all times with one's own consciousness, an equanamous state of mind called samadhi never fructifies. - Swahilya Shambhavi.