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you will attain to heaven or if you win, you

will enjoy the world. Viewing alike happi-

ness and misery, gain and loss, victory and

defeat, you then get ready for the battle; doing

thus, you will not incur sin. To work alone

are you entitled, never to (its) fruits. Never

does anybody stand even a moment

without doing an act. There is nothing to

be done for me and still I am active.

Offering up all acts to me with a spiritual
mind, without any wish and disinterested,

mind, without any wish and disinterested,
fight without any mental fever. Though

ill-performed, one's own duty is better than

another's duty well-performed. He who

does the act that ought to be done,

without intent on the fruit of the action, is

the man of renunciation and the Yogin;

not he who has left off the worship of fire and

not he who does not do anything.
 
BHISHMA PARVA
 

"Even without you, all these warriors

who stand in the opposite ranks, will

cease to be; they have been already

killed by myself; you
archer who
 

shoot with either arm! be simply the