Bhagavad Gita on Letting Go

“karmaṇy-evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana”

You have a right to your actions alone, never to their fruits. Let not the fruits be your motive, nor attachment draw you to inaction.

Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.

“yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya”

Steady in spirit, do your work and let go of attachment, calm alike in success and failure. This evenness of mind is yoga.

Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.

“sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja”

Let go of all your burdens and take refuge in Me alone. I will free you from all that weighs on you; do not grieve.

Krishna's final, crowning counsel to Arjuna at the close of the Gita, on the field of Kurukshetra — to surrender every burden and take refuge in the Divine alone.