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I was thinking about Krishna’s famous shloka from the Bhagavad Gita (2.47):

"Karmanye vadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachana..." > (You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.)

Most people misunderstand this and think the shloka is saying, "leave the fruits of your labor in God's hands."

But I realized that you know what would be even better? If we don’t even have that thought. Because if we leave it to God, we are just hoping God will do us right, which is still clinging to an outcome. The actual meaning is much more direct: you are simply not entitled to the fruit, at all.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.