Surrendering all actions into Me, Vāsudeva, the supreme Lord, the all-knowing, the Self of all, laying them down with the mind set on the Self, with the discerning understanding 'I am the doer; I act for the Lord, as a servant', and further, free of expectation, having given up all expectation of a fruit, free of mine-ness, the sense of 'mine' having departed from you, fight, freed of fever, freed of the heat of grief and sorrow. What I have stated, with reasons, as My settled view, that action is to be done.

Casting all actions upon Me, the Lord of all, the inner self of all beings, with a mind turned to the self, do all enjoined action, war and the rest, free of longing, free of the sense of mine, and with your fever gone. The mind that is on the self is the mind turned to the self, that is, the mind joined with the knowledge of the self's own nature established by a hundred revealed texts. The revealed texts, 'the ruler within who has entered, the inner self of all people', 'the agent who has entered within', 'he who, abiding in the self, is within the self, whom the self does not know, whose body is the self, who rules the self from within, he is your self, the inner ruler, the immortal', and the rest, declare both this self, which is the body of the supreme Person and is set going by Him, and the supreme Person, who is its setter-in-motion. And remembered texts say the same, 'the ruler of all' and the rest. It will be said too, 'I am seated in the heart of all', and 'the Lord, Arjuna, stands in the heart-region of all beings, whirling all beings, mounted on the machine, by His maya'. Therefore, by dwelling on the self's own nature as having Me for its body and as set going by Me, casting all actions, as being done by Me alone, upon Me the supreme Person, and holding them to be merely worship of Me, being free of longing for their fruit, and for that very reason free of the sense of mine in that action, with your fever gone, do war and the rest. Dwelling on this, that the supreme Person, the Lord of all, to whom all belongs, by His own self as agent and by His own instruments, for the single purpose of His own worship, Himself causes His own actions to be done; being free of the sense of mine in actions; and freed of the inner fever that comes of the earlier endless heap of sin set going from beginningless time, the fever that takes the form 'how shall I fare?'; remembering that the supreme Person Himself, worshipped by the actions, will free you from bondage; do the discipline of action itself with ease. This is the meaning. That He is the Lord of all and the owner of all is established by revealed texts, 'Him, the supreme great Lord of lords, the supreme deity of deities', 'the lord of the universe', 'the lord of lords', and the rest. Lordship is the being the ruler; ownership is the being the master. That this is the very meaning that is the essence of the Upanishads, the Lord says.

Therefore, casting all actions upon Me alone, releasing upon Me alone those that have been mistakenly superimposed on the living being, and holding that the Lord Himself does all actions and that this is the worship of Me. The thought that takes the Self, that is Me, for its object is the 'mind set on the supreme Self' (adhyatma-cetas). The renunciation is the thought 'the Lord does it'; the freedom from the sense of mine is the thought 'I do not do it'.