Word meanings
- yuktaḥ
- one who is united in consciousness with God
- karma-phalam
- the results of all activities
- tyaktvā
- giving up
- śāntim
- peace
- āpnoti
- attains
- naiṣṭhikīm
- everlasting
- ayuktaḥ
- one who is not united with God in consciousness
- kāma-kāreṇa
- impelled by desires
- phale
- in the result
- saktaḥ
- attached
- nibadhyate
- becomes entangled
Translations
The one who is united (the well-poised or harmonized) having abandoned the fruit of action attains eternal peace; whereas the one who is not united (the unsteady or unbalanced), impelled by desire and attached to the fruit, is bound.
Having abandoned the fruit of action, he wins eternal peace. Others, unacquainted with spirituality, led by desire and clinging to the benefit they think will follow their actions, become entangled in them.
Giving up the results of work by becoming resolute in faith, one attains peace arising from steadfastness. One who is lacking in resolute faith, being attached to the results under the impulse of desire, becomes bound.
कर्मयोगी कर्मफलका त्याग करके नैष्ठिकी शान्तिको प्राप्त होता है। परन्तु सकाम मनुष्य कामनाके कारण फलमें आसक्त होकर बँध जाता है।Commentary
Santim naishthikim is interpreted as peace born of devotion of steadfastness. The harmonious man who does actions for the sake of the Lord without expectation of the fruit and who says? I do actions for my Lord only, not for my personal gain or profit, attains to the peace born of devotion, through the following four stages, viz., purity of mind, the attainment of knowledge, renunciation of actions, and steadiness in wisdom. But the unbalanced or the unharmonised man who is led by desire and who is attached to the fruits of the actions and who says?
I have done such and such an action I will get such and such a fruit, is firmly bound.