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Bhagavad Gita 6.3

आरुरुक्षोर्मुनेर्योगं कर्म कारणमुच्यते।योगारूढस्य तस्यैव शमः कारणमुच्यते॥

ārurukṣormuneryogaṃ karma kāraṇamucyate |yogārūḍhasya tasyaiva śamaḥ kāraṇamucyate ||

For a sage who wishes to attain to Yoga, action is said to be the means; for the same sage who has attained Yoga, inaction is said to be the means.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

For the sage who seeks the heights of spiritual meditation, practice is the only method, and when they have attained it, they must maintain themselves there through continual self-control.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.