What is the relation between knowledge and work? Generally we do works under the influence of nature and with ignorance. When work is done with knowledge, one does not do the work for one’s ego but for the joy of work impelled from within by the Divine Will.
Gita gives us a vast and great understanding of work and the motive behind it. There is deva sampada or divine riches and another kind of riches that belong to the Asura or the titan in man.
Absorbed in the present act, the fleeting days,
None thought to look beyond the hour's gains,
Or dreamed to make this earth a fairer world,
Or felt some touch divine surprise his heart.