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The Blessed Lord said He who performs his bounden duty without depending on the fruits of his actions he is a Sannyasi and a Yogi; not he who is without fire and without action.

The Lord said: One who does the work that ought to be done without depending on its fruit is a renouncer and a yogi, not one who merely gives up the sacred fire or gives up activity.

Krishna opens the chapter on meditation by returning to a question from the previous chapter: who is the true renouncer? He answers that renunciation (sannyāsa) is not a matter of outward signs. A person who stops tending the sacred fire or gives up all activity has not thereby renounced anything. The real renouncer, who is also the real yogi, does the work that ought to be done without leaning on its results. The verse ties the meditative discipline about to be taught firmly to the ethic of action Krishna has developed since chapter two.