Nishkam Karma

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Nishkam Karma, or self-less or desireless action is an action performed without any expectation of fruits or results.

In Bhagavad Gita Krishna advocates 'Nishkam Karma Yoga' (the Yoga of Selfless Action) as the ideal path to realize the Truth. Allocated work done without expectations, motives, or thinking about its outcomes tends to purify one's mind and gradually makes an individual fit to see the value of reason and the benefits of renouncing the work itself. These concepts are vividly described in the following verses:

"To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction". - verse 47, Chapter 2-Samkhya theory and Yoga practise, The Bhagavadgita [1]