Karma-Yoga

Do the work, let go of the results

Cites the Bhagavad Gita

Vivekananda calls non-attachment, “to be attached to nothing while doing our work of life”, the “true solution”, and says it is found in the Gita.

1. 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 1,600 years earlier.

2. 1896

   “But the true solution is found in the Gita. It is the theory of non-attachment, to be attached to nothing while doing our work of life.”