Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4, Verse 15

Knowing thus, the ancient seekers after freedom also performed action. Do therefore perform action, as did the ancients in olden times.

Even people already seeking something higher still kept doing the work. That's the actual precedent here, not an excuse to stop.

This directly answers a real, unspoken question: if freedom is the goal, why keep acting at all? Because the wisest people who came before, already seeking that same freedom, didn't stop working either, they just changed how they held it.