Word meanings
- sānkhya
- renunciation of actions
- yogau
- karm yog
- pṛthak
- different
- bālāḥ
- the ignorant
- pravadanti
- say
- na
- never
- paṇḍitāḥ
- the learned
- ekam
- in one
- api
- even
- āsthitaḥ
- being situated
- samyak
- completely
- ubhayoḥ
- of both
- vindate
- achieve
- phalam
- the result
Translations
Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and the Yoga of action, or the performance of action, as though they are distinct and different; he who is truly established in one, obtains the fruits of both.
Only the unenlightened speak of wisdom and right action as separate; the wise do not. If anyone knows one, they enjoy the fruit of both.
The fools, not the learned ones, speak of Sankhya and (Karma-) yoga as being different. Anyone who properly resorts to either one of them gets the results of both.
बेसमझ लोग सांख्ययोग और कर्मयोगको अलग-अलग फलवाले कहते हैं, न कि पण्डितजन; क्योंकि इन दोनोंमेंसे एक साधनमें भी अच्छी तरहसे स्थित मनुष्य दोनोंके फलरूप परमात्माको प्राप्त कर लेता है।Commentary
Children the ignorant people who have no knowledge of the Self, and who have only a theoretical knowledge of the scriptures. Children or ignorant people only say that knowledge and the performance of action are different and produce distinct and opposite results. But the wise who have the knowledge of the Self say that they produce the same result only, viz.? Moksha or liberation. He who is duly established in, one, he who truly lives in one? Sankhya or Yoga, obtains the fruits of both.
Therefore there is no diversity in the result or the fruit. This is the gist of this verse. (Cf.VI.2)