BG-SS 3.25

saktāḥ karmaṇy avidvāṁso yathā kurvanti bhārata kuryād vidvāṁs tathāsaktaś chikīrṣur loka-saṅgraham [25]

(he) bhārata–O Arjuna; yathā–just as; avidvāṁsaḥ–the ignorant; karmaṇi saktāḥ–attached to work; kurvanti–perform; (karmaṇi)–work; tathā–similarly; vidvān–the wise; asaktaḥ (san)–being unattached; kuryāt–should work; chikīrṣuḥ–wishing; lokasaṅ graham–to guide the people. [25]

Text

O Arjuna, as ignorant persons work with attachment, the wise, too, must work, but without attachment, in order to guide the general people who exist in the plane of worldly action. (They differ not in their work but in their attitudes of attachment and detachment.)

Purport

Srimad Bhagavad Gita.

Chapter 3: The Path of Action (Karma yoga). Text 25

O Arjuna, as ignorant persons work with attachment, the wise, too, must work, but without attachment, in order to guide the general people who exist in the plane of worldly action. (They differ not in their work but in their attitudes of attachment and detachment.)