11. Actions cannot be entirely relinquished by an embodied being, but he who relinquishes the fruits of action is called a relinquisher.
12. The threefold fruit of action—disagreeable, agreeable and mixed—accrues to non-relinquishers after death, but never to relinquishers.
13. Learn from Me, O mighty-armed, these five causes for the accomplishment of all works as declared in the wisdom which is the end of all action:
14. The body, the agent, the various senses, the different functions of a manifold kind, and the presiding divinity, the fifth of these;
15. Whatever action a man performs by his body, speech and mind—whether right or the reverse—these five are its causes.
16. Such being the case, he who through a non-purified understanding looks upon his Self, the Absolute, as the agent, he of perverted mind sees not.
17. He who is free from the notion of egoism, whose intelligence is not affected by good or evil, though he kills these people, he kills not, nor is bound by the action.
—Bhagavad Gita, 18:11-17
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