Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4, Verse 20

त्यक्त्वा कर्मफलासङ्गं नित्यतृप्तो निराश्रयः । कर्मण्यभिप्रवृत्तोऽपि नैव किञ्चित्करोति सः

tyaktvā karmaphalāsaṅgaṃ nityatṛpto nirāśrayaḥ | karmaṇyabhipravṛtto'pi naiva kiñcitkaroti saḥ

Translation

Having abandoned attachment for the fruits of action, ever content, dependent on none, though engaged in actions, nothing at all does he do.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

tyaktvā

having abandoned

karmaphalāsaṅgam

of action, in (to) the fruit, attachment

nityatṛptaḥ

always-contented

nirāśrayaḥ

without dependence

karmaṇi

in action

abhipravṛttaḥ

engaged

api

also

na

not

eva

even

kiñcit

anything

karoti

does

saḥ

he

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

He who has abandoned all concern for action and all attachment for its results in virtue of the knowledge of the truth, who is always content, longing for no objects of senses, who seeks nothing whereby to achieve any end of his — such a man, though engaged in actions, really does nothing at all, since he is endued with knowledge of the actionless Self.