Bhagavad Gita 4.23
गतसङ्गस्य मुक्तस्य ज्ञानावस्थितचेतसः । यज्ञायाचरतः कर्म समग्रं प्रविलीयते ॥
gata-saṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-cetasaḥ | yajñāyācarataḥ karma samagraṃ pravilīyate ||
Translation
His attachment gone, freed, his mind established in knowledge, performing action for sacrifice, his entire action melts away.
Reflection
What action of yours have you been carrying long after the doing was finished?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Four
Samagraṃ pravilīyate. The whole melts away. The verse names what happens to action that meets the four conditions: clinging gone, freed, mind in knowledge, the work done as offering. It does not leave traces. Pravilīyate, dissolves, melts. Shankara reads the verb with care: the action still occurred, the dishes were still washed, the fight still happened. What did not happen is the karmic deposit. The verse is the bridge into the long passage on sacrifice that begins next: the work itself is the sacrifice if the operator has the four things right.