What is the total sacrifice of the fruit of one's work?

[Dr. J. S. R. Prasad asked: Can You kindly enlighten me about total sacrifice of the fruit of one’s work (sarvakarma phala tyāga), as mentioned in Gītā with reference to a common man?]

Swami replied: Wealth is the fruit of one’s work and it is to be sacrificed to God. The common man does this total sacrifice of the fruit of his work when he surrenders his entire life for the service of God alone. When the ultimate goal of your life is serving God and pleasing Him, all the expenses incurred by you for your sake and for the sake of your family come under the account of God alone. To serve God, you must first stay alive. To keep yourself alive, some expenditure is inevitable. Similarly, without the assistance of your family, you cannot remain alive. This means that you have to maintain your family too. All this essential expenditure is treated to be done for the sake of God alone. All of it becomes niśkāma karma yoga. This becomes valid only when you keep the service of God as the climax-goal of your life. Otherwise, the expenditure made by you for yourself and your family does not count as niśkāma karma yoga. In this way, every common man can do sarvakarma phala tyāga. The Gītā itself says that without working and earning, none can maintain his own human body and remain alive (Śarīira yātrāpi ca te—Gītā).

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