What the Bhagavad Gita Says About Letting Go of Results

BG 2.47

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन |

Thy right is to work only, but never with its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction.

BG 2.48

योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय |

Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in success and failure. Evenness of mind is called Yoga.

BG 2.51

कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः |

The wise, possessed of knowledge, having abandoned the fruits of their actions, and being freed from the fetters of birth, go to the place which is beyond all evil.

BG 4.20

त्यक्त्वा कर्मफलासङ्गं नित्यतृप्तो निराश्रयः |

Having abandoned attachment to the fruits of the action, ever content, depending on nothing, he does not do anything though engaged in activity.

BG 12.12

श्रेयो हि ज्ञानमभ्यासाज्ज्ञानाद्ध्यानं विशिष्यते |

Better indeed is knowledge than practice; than knowledge meditation is better; than meditation the renunciation of the fruits of actions: peace immediately follows renunciation.

BG 18.9

कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन |

Whatever obligatory action is done, O Arjuna, merely because it ought to be done, abandoning attachment and also the desire for reward, that renunciation is regarded as Sattvic (pure).