Krishna speaks18.10

न द्वेष्ट्यकुशलं कर्म कुशले नानुषज्जते।त्यागी सत्त्वसमाविष्टो मेधावी छिन्नसंशयः॥

na dveṣṭy akuśalaṃ karma kuśale nānuṣajjatetyāgī sattva-samāviṣṭo medhāvī chinna-sanśayaḥ

Word by word
na: neitherdveṣṭi: hateakuśalam: disagreeablekarma: workkuśale: to an agreeablena: noranuṣajjate: seektyāgī: one who renounces desires for enjoying the fruits of actionssattva: in the mode of goodnesssamāviṣṭaḥ: endowed withmedhāvī: intelligentchinna-sanśayaḥ: those who have no doubts

The verse says

He does not hate the work that is unpleasant and he does not cling to the work that is pleasant. Such a person has let go, is settled in clarity, is sharp, and his doubts are cut through.

In plain words

A portrait, in four short strokes.

No hatred of the unpleasant job. No clinging to the pleasant one.

And then the last phrase, which is the surprising one: chinna-saṁśaya, his doubts are cut. Not answered. Cut. The questions stopped being questions rather than getting resolved.

Where you've felt this · at work

A nurse on a long shift does the interesting part of her job and the part that involves mopping with the same face. You could not tell from watching which of the two she would have chosen. She is not being noble about the mopping. She has simply stopped running a commentary on which tasks she deserves.

Going deeper

Doubts being cut rather than answered is the phrase to stop on, because it describes something most people have felt at least once.

There is a kind of worry that no amount of information settles. Should I have taken the other job, was that the right thing to say, am I doing this well enough. More facts do not help, because the question was never short of facts.

What ends that kind of doubt is not an answer. It is the question losing its grip, usually when the thing it was attached to is let go of. The doubts here are described as cut because something was holding them taut.

So if a question has been running in you for years without resolving, it may be the wrong shape rather than unanswered. Ask what it is attached to, and whether that is yours to put down.

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