You are qualified for works alone, not for the path of knowledge. And then, while doing works, let there be no desire for the results of works under any circumstances whatever. If you should have a thirst for the results of works, you will have to reap those fruits. Therefore let not your motive be the fruits of your action. When a person performs work thirsting for the results of those works, then he will be subject to rebirth as the result of action. Neither may you be attached to inaction, thinking 'Of what avail are these painful works if their fruits should not be desired?'

Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain

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• in action
• only/alone
• right/entitlement
• your
• not (prohibitive particle)
• in the fruits/results
• ever/at any time
• not (prohibitive particle)
• the cause/motive for the fruit of action
• be (you)
• not (prohibitive particle)
• your
• attachment
• let there be
• in inaction/non-action