Duty in the Bhagavad Gita

Verses across the Gita that speak to duty, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.

• 2.3Weakness is optional; the call to act remains.
• 2.47Action belongs to you; the result does not.
• 3.8Right action is unavoidable; even survival depends on it.
• 3.9Work becomes bondage when it is done for yourself.
• 3.19Freedom comes when action is done without grasping at its reward.
• 3.20Perfection comes through action that serves more than the self.
• 3.22Even the fulfilled keep working, because action need not come from lack.
• 3.23Careless withdrawal by the highest would unravel everyone below.
• 3.24Even the highest must act to prevent disorder.
• 3.35Imperfect right action is safer than perfect imitation.
• 18.23The purest action asks for nothing back.
• 18.31Restless intelligence cannot tell duty from harm.
• 18.59Ego cannot veto what your nature has already chosen.