Set Your Heart on the Deed, Not the Fruit

answered by Bhagavad Gītā 2:47

기원전 2세기경 편찬(서사시 전승)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Seven Samurai (1954)

dir. Akira Kurosawa · Japan

Whose task is it to protect the powerless with no reward and no honor? Knowing those he shields may not even remember to thank him, for what does a person give himself to the right without recompense?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Without recognition or reward, do I fold away even the right thing I ought to do?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

karmaṇy evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

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

💡 TL;DR

The old teacher of the Gita said we have a right to the deed but not to own its fruit.

📝The Classic Answers

The old teacher of the Gita said we have a right to the deed but not to own its fruit. One who guards the weak without reward lives this teaching in the body. Though those he shields never remember to thank him, and the victory is never his to keep, he sets his heart on the action itself. The right is not priced by reward. Before postponing a right act while waiting to be recognized, I choose to learn to release the fruit and rest in the deed.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If you postponed a right act today because 'no one even notices,' erase the reward and look at the deed itself.

📖 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.