Free to Dwell in the Act, Not the Result

answered by Bhagavad Gītā 2:47

기원전 2세기경 편찬(서사시 전승)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Roman Holiday (1953)

dir. William Wyler · USA

Bound by royal duty, a young woman draws close to love within a single day of stolen freedom, already knowing she must return to her role when that day ends.

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

When love and duty collide, what must I let go of?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

karmaṇy evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Your right is to action alone, never to its fruits.

💡 TL;DR

The old teacher of the Gītā said, "Your right is to action alone, never to its fruits." Whether one chooses love or duty, what a person can never truly hold is the fruit called outcome.

📝The Classic Answers

The old teacher of the Gītā said, "Your right is to action alone, never to its fruits." Whether one chooses love or duty, what a person can never truly hold is the fruit called outcome. Someone who has fully lived a single day of love has not lost it merely for failing to possess it. I choose to ask first not what I will gain, but how I should act, right here, right now. What must be let go is not love itself, but the hand that grasps for its result.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If fear of the outcome makes you hesitate today, set the result aside for a moment and simply do the act itself, fully.

📖 Classic Source: Bhagavad Gītā 2:47. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.