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our right, in the sense that, it is the only thing on which, we have
a locus of control. No matter how much more we exert, we do
not have any control whatsoever over anything else related to
work, such as outcome, fruits of action and the source of the
fruits. It’s a paradox that we spend a lot of time in our life to
control things that are in fact, outside of locus of control. He
uses the words, “eva” and “adhikāra” or the only right that we
have is over the work that we do. Essentially the term adhikāra
should be translated to “locus of control” and not right in the
sense we understand today.

Right knowledge about work Work with Yoga
liberates you from the Buddhi does not
clutches of work & its effect produce contradicting
results

Such a method of working Developing a sense
results in very good of equanimity is
efficiency hitherto unknown critical for producing
good work

Fig 2.2: Work as a fundamental pathway to prosperity

There are umpteen reasons why the results can go anyway
including the way we don’t intend them to as well. Strictly these
are not in our control. This idea has to be correctly understood.
This is what life teaches us throughout – 24X7, albeit we rarely
see it. If there is some outcome, it has its origins somewhere.
Even in this, we don’t have any locus of control. Now on seeing
these three aspects related to locus of control, we may conclude
that the conditions appear stringent and therefore may choose
to stay out of work. Krishna brings in the fourth part just to
avoid this possibility. He said, “You can never be in a state of
“not doing work” in society. He further elaborates this in
Chapter 3 and says there is nothing like “no work”. When we
don’t do “any work”, we are still doing a lot of work. We’ll see
this in detail later. This is pictorially represented in fig 2.3.

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