Shloka 41
ध्यानयोगः — Dhyāna-Yoga
Discipline of Meditation and Mental Restraint
किंतु हे धनंजय! जिसने कर्मयोगकी विधिसे समस्त कर्मोंका परमात्मामें अर्पण कर दिया हैः और जिसने विवेकद्वारा समस्त संशयोंका नाश कर दिया है,* ऐसे वशमें किये हुए अन्तःकरणवाले पुरुषको कर्म नहीं बाँधतेः
kintu he dhanañjaya! yena karmayogasya vidhinā samastāni karmāṇi paramātmani arpitāni, yena ca vivekena samasta-saṁśayānāṁ nāśaḥ kṛtaḥ; evaṁ vaśīkṛtāntaḥkaraṇaṁ puruṣaṁ karmāṇi na badhnanti.
Pero, oh Dhanañjaya, quien—según la disciplina del karma-yoga—ha ofrecido todas sus acciones al Ser Supremo y ha destruido toda duda mediante la sabiduría discerniente: para ese hombre, que ha puesto bajo dominio su instrumento interior, las acciones no lo atan.
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Actions bind when driven by attachment, ego, and unresolved doubt; they do not bind the one who performs all duties as an offering to the Supreme Self and whose discernment has removed uncertainty. Mastery of the inner mind-intellect makes action ethically steady and spiritually freeing.
In the Bhīṣma Parva’s battlefield instruction setting, Arjuna is addressed as Dhanañjaya and is taught how to act amid war without becoming morally and spiritually entangled: by dedicating deeds to the Supreme and acting with clear discernment rather than wavering doubt.