Prompt #16

Select your favorite passage from Chapter 2 in The Bhagavad Gita. Retype it on your blog; then, explain it in your own words. Write a paragraph or two about why it speaks to you and how it could be relevant to your own life.

You have the right to your actions.

but never to your actions' fruits.

Act for the actions' sake.

And do not be attached to inaction.

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I really like this passage because I personally like to live by this. Our actions are ours, but we should be doing them for the sake of doing them, and not for the potential benefit we may get from them. We should be doing what we want for the sake of doing it. We should works hard because we want to be ahrd workers and not because we want the paycheck or the promotions. The benefits of our actions our not ours by right, but that's how it ends up sometimes. I am someone who lives by putting in my best effort and not worrying about how things will end up, as long as I tried my best the outcome is irrelevent. We should be doing the things that we love and not what is just expected from us. Something to remember, though, is that our actions are inportant, they are expressions of who we are. We should always be taking action and doing something. If we become inactive we no longer persue our passions.