When prescribed action is performed, O Arguna! abandoning attachment and fruit also, merely because it ought to be performed, that is deemed (to be) a good abandonment. He who is possessed of abandonment, being full of goodness, and talented, and having his doubts destroyed, is not averse from unpleasant actions, is not attached to pleasant (ones). Since no embodied (being) can abandon actions without exception, he is said to be possessed of abandonment, who abandons the fruit of action.