- abandonment of, or evenness of mind towards, results good or bad;
- dedicating, or consigning or depositing, results of actions, to God or Brahman;
- dedicating, etc. the actions themselves to God or Brahman;
- having no personal motive for actions;
- giving up attachment to action as such;
- giving up attachment to inaction.
Karma-Yoga Action
In karma-yoga defined by Śaṅkara in II.39 commentary, there are three elements: (1) calm endurance of opposites, (2) yogic action, (3) samādhi practice. The first of these can be roughly summed up as Independence, and was looked at in a previous chapter. This chapter is concerned with the yogic action, from which karma-yoga takes its name.Yogic action is presented, in the Gītā and in Śaṅkara, in slightly varying ways: