Bhagavad Gita 3.30
मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा । निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः ॥
mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi saṃnyasyādhyātma-cetasā | nirāśīr nirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigata-jvaraḥ ||
Translation
Dedicating all actions to me, with your mind fixed on the supreme self, being free from desire and from selfishness, fight, with your fever gone.
Reflection
What fever have you been bringing to the work that has nothing to do with the work itself?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Three
The chapter's instruction, finally direct. Hand over the work to me. Adhyātma-cetasā, with mind on the supreme self. Nirāśīr, without longing. Nirmamo, without mine-ness. Vigata-jvaraḥ, fever-free. Yudhyasva, fight. Four dispositions and one verb. Shankara: the verb comes last because it depends on the four. Hand the work to the larger gravity, drop the longing, drop the mine, drop the fever, and then the fight is no longer the same fight. It is the work going through you instead of being done by you. The verse is the answer Arjuna asked for in 3.2 and could not have heard until 3.30.