Bhagavad Gita 3.9
यज्ञार्थात्कर्मणोऽन्यत्र लोकोऽयं कर्मबन्धनः । तदर्थं कर्म कौन्तेय मुक्तसङ्गः समाचर ॥
yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṃ karma-bandhanaḥ | tad-arthaṃ karma kaunteya mukta-saṅgaḥ samācara ||
Translation
This world is bound by actions other than those performed for the sake of sacrifice. Do you, therefore, O son of Kunti, perform action for that sake, free from all attachment.
Reflection
Whose name would the work be done in, if it were not done in yours?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Three
The hinge verse of the chapter. Action that is not offered binds. Action that is offered does not. Yajña is the older word, sacrifice, but Krishna is widening it. Any work done with the result handed back to something larger than the self becomes yajna. The same act, two different gravities. Mukta-saṅga, free of clinging. The verse hands Arjuna the key the chapter has been moving toward. He does not have to stop fighting. He has to stop fighting for himself alone. The work continues. The bondage drops away.