With body, mind and intellect, and with the senses too, taken alone, that is, stripped of the sense of mine, free of the notion of 'mine', acting with the thought 'I do action for the Lord alone, not for a fruit of mine': the word 'alone' is to be joined with body and each of the rest, to mark the casting-off of mine-ness in all their workings. The yogins, the doers of action, perform action, abandoning attachment to the fruit, for the purification of the self, for the purification of being. Therefore your right is to that alone; so do action. And since.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

The yogins do action that is to be accomplished by the body, the mind, the understanding, and the senses, having given up attachment to fruits such as heaven, for the purity of the self; that is, they do it for the destruction of the bondage of the earlier karma that clings to the self.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

There is also the example of conduct, Krishna says, with 'with the body'.