UdyamGita

Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga

Chapter 18 - Verse 10,11,12

न द्वेष्ट्यकुशलं कर्म कुशले नानुषज्जते |
त्यागी सत्त्वसमाविष्टो मेधावी छिन्नसंशय: || 10||
न हि देहभृता शक्यं त्यक्तुं कर्माण्यशेषत: |
यस्तु कर्मफलत्यागी स त्यागीत्यभिधीयते || 11||
अनिष्टमिष्टं मिश्रं च त्रिविधं कर्मण: फलम् |
भवत्यत्यागिनां प्रेत्य न तु सन्न्यासिनां क्वचित् || 12||

Translation

A sattvic renouncer is one who neither despises unpleasant activities
nor craves for pleasant activities, one who offers all activities to the Lord,
one who is pious by nature, one who has understood the Lord, and one who
has no doubts about the nature of the Lord and the Universe.

One with a physical body can never completely renounce all
activities (as even breathing is an activity). One who has relinquished the
fruits of labour is the ideal tyagi.

Those who perform activities with expectations will experience
either pleasant, or unpleasant, or mixed rewards after they leave this world.
This does not apply to those who perform duties without expectations.

Unfiltered First Take

For a true entrepreneur, there is neither good work nor bad work, neither likable work nor work that he dislikes. Irrespective of what he feels about the tasks in hand, he gives his best and does every task with the same interest and dedication. He hates the idea of quitting or not doing them.

Even though he knows it requires a lot of effort and the outcome may not be as expected, there is no other choice for him. He ends up doing it without feeling demotivated or demoralized. Many people categorize rewards or output as pleasant, unpleasant, or mixed. For the true entrepreneur, he does not see rewards from a personal perspective, but evaluates whether the results are helping the organization move towards its goal.

UdyamGita Interpretation

Krishna now describes the inner state of the true renunciant. This is not someone who escapes work, nor someone who cherry-picks tasks based on comfort or preference. It is a person who has transcended inner resistance itself.

Such a person does not hate difficult work, nor does he cling to pleasant work. Anchored in clarity and goodness, his doubts are resolved—not because outcomes are predictable, but because his relationship with work is settled.

Business Insight

This is a precise description of a true entrepreneur.

For such a founder, there is:

No “good” task or “bad” task
No “I like this” or “I dislike that”
No emotional bargaining with effort

Every task—strategic, operational, painful, repetitive—is treated with the same seriousness and commitment.

He may fully know:

The effort required is high
The outcome may be unpleasant or mixed
Recognition may not come

Yet quitting is not even a mental option. Not because he is forced—but because the work must be done.

This mindset eliminates demotivation at the root.

Leadership Lesson

Krishna makes a radical statement: no embodied being can stop acting. Action is unavoidable. What is optional is attachment to results.

Most people classify outcomes as:

Pleasant
Unpleasant
Mixed

And then tie their motivation to this classification.

The mature leader discards this framework entirely.

A true entrepreneur does not evaluate results from a personal reward lens. He evaluates only one thing:

Is this helping the organization move closer to its goal?

When this shift happens:

Success doesn’t inflate ego
Failure doesn’t damage self-worth
Mixed results don’t confuse direction

This is freedom within action.

Key Takeaways

True entrepreneurs do not choose tasks based on liking or comfort
Disagreeable work is not avoided; agreeable work is not clung to
Action is inevitable—attachment to results is optional
Personal reward-thinking distorts judgment
Organizational progress, not personal gain, becomes the metric

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