The concept of work is analyzed in these verses. When it was told that action can be done without egocentric desires and attachments to fruits the consequential question is what constitutes action or work. Sri Krishna says that there are five aspects of action or five- fold division of work which are already laid down in the Sankhyan philosophy.

The five components of action are
The body -Adhishthaanam -the gateway for the entrance and existence of stimuli
The ego -Karta- which seeks fulfillment of the action through the body

the organs of perception – Karanam – through which the inner personality comes into contact with the field of enjoyment and satisfaction
The organs of action and
the presiding deities of the organs of perception which make them work properly.
The deities represent an unseen power other than the human factors. Each of the sense organs is controlled by a reflection of Consciousness called Presiding deity.
It is this non-human factor that interferes and disposes of human effort. It is the wise, all- seeing will that is at work in the world. In all human actions, there is an unaccountable element which is commonly called luck, destiny, fate or the force accumulated by the acts of one’s past lives. It is called here daiva.
The task of man is to drop a pebble in the ocean of time and he may not see the ripple reach the other distant shore; he may plant the seed but he may not see the harvest which lies in the hands higher than his own.

As all the items listed above will have to function in a coordinated manner for the accomplishment of any task undertaken, be it by the body, speech or mind or whether they are right or wrong, they are called the causes of all actions.

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Adhisthanam, the locus, the body, which is the seat, the basis, of the manifestation of desire, hatred, happiness, sorrow, knowledge, etc.; tatha, as also karta, the agent, the enjoyer [The individual Self which has intelligence etc. as its limiting adjuncts, due to which it appears to possess their characteristics and become identified with them.] who has assumed the characteristics of the limiting adjuncts; prthak vidham, the different kinds of; karanam, organs, the ears etc. which, twelve [The five organs of knowledge (eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin), the five organs of actions (hands, feet, speech, organ of excertion and that of generation), the mind and the intellect.] in number, are of different kinds for the experience of sound etc.; the vividhah, many; and prthak, distinct; cesta, activities connected with air-exhalation, inhalation, etc.; ca eva, and; daivam, the divine, i. e. the Sun and the others who are the presiding deities of the eye etc.; is atra, here, in relation to these four; pancamam, the fifth-completing the five.