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Do the work, let go of the results
Cites the Bhagavad Gita, per a summary
Wikipedia’s account has Gandhi reading the Gita as teaching “selfless action” and “renouncing fruits of action”, and crediting the Gita, which his English edition calls The Gospel of Selfless Action.
- 2nd c. BCE to 2nd c. CE
“But thou, want not! ask not! Find full reward Of doing right in right! Let right deeds be Thy motive, not the fruit which comes from them.”
Bhagavad Gita. Earliest we can find, more than 1,700 years earlier.
- 1929
“can be achieved by selfless action, by desireless action; by renouncing fruits of action”
Secondhand, from Wikipedia. M. K. Gandhi, Anasakti Yoga (1929).
This book is still in copyright, so we read an account of it, not the book.
Sources
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/