Word meanings
- karma-jam
- born of fruitive actions
- buddhi-yuktāḥ
- endowed with equanimity of intellect
- hi
- as
- phalam
- fruits
- tyaktvā
- abandoning
- manīṣiṇaḥ
- the wise
- janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ
- freedom from the bondage of life and death
- padam
- state
- gacchanti
- attain
- anāmayam
- devoid of sufferings
Translations
The wise, possessing knowledge, having abandoned the fruits of their actions, and being freed from the bonds of birth, go to the place which is beyond all evil.
The sages, guided by pure intellect, renounce the fruits of their actions; and, thus freed from the shackles of rebirth, they attain the highest bliss.
For those devoted to wisdom, they become enlightened men by giving up the fruits of their actions, and thus they reach a state beyond evil, having been freed from the bondage of birth.
समतायुक्त मनीषी साधक कर्मजन्य फलका त्याग करके जन्मरूप बन्धनसे मुक्त होकर निर्विकार पदको प्राप्त हो जाते हैं।Commentary
Clinging to the fruits of actions is the cause of rirth. Man takes a body to enjoy them. If anyone performs actions for the sake of God in fulfilment of His purpose without desire for the fruits, he is released from the bonds of birth and attains to the blissful state or the immortal abode. Sages who possess evenness of mind abandon the fruits of their actions and thus escape from good and bad actions. Buddhi referred to in the three verses 49? 50 and 51 may be the wisdom of the Sankhyas, i.e., the knowledge of the Self or Atma-Jnana which dawns when the mind is purified by Karma Yoga.