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Contents of the Gītā Summarized
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they continually bind the worker to the cycle of birth and death. One should therefore never desire to be the cause of work. Everything should be done in Krṣna consciousness for the satisfaction of Krṣna. Misers do not know how to utilize the assets of riches which they acquire by good fortune or by hard labor. One should spend all energies working in Krṣna consciousness, and that will make one's life successful. Like the misers, unfortunate persons do not employ their human energy in the service of the Lord.
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बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते ।
तस्माद्योगाय युज्यस्व योगः कर्मसु कौशलम् ॥५०॥
buddhi-yukto jahātīha ubhe sukṛta-duṣkṛte tasmād yogāya yujyasva yogah karmasu kauśalam
buddhi-yuktaḥ —one who is engaged in devotional service;  jahāti —can get rid of;  iha —in this life;  ubhe —in both;  sukṛta-duṣkṛte —in good and bad results;  tasmāt —therefore;  yogāya —for the sake of devotional service;  yujyasva —be so engaged;  yogaḥ —Kṛṣṇa consciousness;  karmasu —in all activities;  kauśalam —art.
TRANSLATION
A man engaged in devotional service rids himself of both good and bad actions even in this life. Therefore strive for yoga, O Arjuna, which is the art of all work.
PURPORT
Since time immemorial each living entity has accumulated the various reactions of his good and bad work. As such, he is continuously ignorant of his real constitutional position. One's ignorance can be removed by the instruction of the  Bhagavad-gītā  which teaches one to surrender unto Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa in all respects and become liberated from the chained victimization of action and reaction, birth after birth. Arjuna is therefore advised to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the purifying process of resultant action.