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I was listening to your talks on Essays on the Gita, and in one of them, you were talking about doing work disinterested. I could not quite understand whether this meant disinterested in the result or the work itself. 📘😊🙏🏻🌼

Disinterested means not because of personal interest, for the gains one might get from it. It is not a lack of interest but the absence of any selfish motive in the work. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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