" Yoga is skill in action." This is a quotation from the Bhagavad Gita. (Reference The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, by Eknath Easwaran.)
"Yoga is wisdom in work." Is another translation. (Reference: The Bhagavad Gita, Penguin Classics, translated by Juan Mascaro. Chapter 2, verse 50.)
If we look forward to the results of our action we can be obsessed with the difficulties and obstructions.
When we become detached from the outcome and focus on the present then deeper resources become accessible.
This principle is embodied in Karma Yoga, described as a way of acting, thinking and willing by which one acts in accordance with one's duty (dharma) without consideration of personal selfish desires, likes or dislikes: acting without being attached to the fruits of one's deeds.
It's interesting, too, how the poetic language of the Bhagavad Gita is open to interpretation in the translation, as seen in the two examples above. This very ambiguity is ironically the subject of the following Chapter 2 Verse 53:
"When thy mind, that may be wavering in the contradictions of many scriptures, shall rest unshaken in divine contemplation, then the goal of Yoga is thine."
