Bhagavad Gita 3.18
नैव तस्य कृतेनार्थो नाकृतेनेह कश्चन । न चास्य सर्वभूतेषु कश्चिदर्थव्यपाश्रयः ॥
naiva tasya kṛtenārtho nākṛteneha kaścana | na cāsya sarva-bhūteṣu kaścid artha-vyapāśrayaḥ ||
Translation
He has no object to gain in this world by performing action, nor any object to lose by not performing it; nor does he depend on any being for any object.
Reflection
Where would your day still hold its shape if no one ever returned the favor?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Three
The portrait completes. No gain in doing. No loss in not doing. No dependence on any being for anything. The verse describes the inner geometry of the person from 3.17: nothing pending. Three nots stacked, like 2.2 and 2.3 stacked their nots, but in a different direction now: not refusal of a feeling, but absence of leverage. Aurobindo reads the verse as a measurement device. Hold it up to your own day. How many of the lines describe you? If any answer is no, the wheel still applies to the rest.