Shloka 51
कर्मयोग–ज्ञानयज्ञ–अवतारोपदेश
Karma-Yoga, Jñāna-Yajña, and Avatāra Instruction
कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिण: । जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ता: पद गच्छन्त्यनामयम्र
karmajaṁ buddhiyuktā hi phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ | janmabandhavinirmuktāḥ padaṁ gacchanty anāmayam ||
संजय बोले—“क्योंकि समबुद्धि से युक्त ज्ञानीजन कर्मों से उत्पन्न होने वाले फल का त्याग करके जन्मरूप बन्धन से मुक्त हो जाते हैं और निर्विकार, अनामय परम पद को प्राप्त करते हैं।”
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches karma-yoga in its mature form: act with disciplined, even-minded understanding, but relinquish attachment to results. Such renunciation of fruit (phala-tyāga) loosens the bondage of repeated birth and leads toward the untroubled supreme state.
Within Bhīṣma Parva’s Bhagavad-gītā discourse, Sanjaya reports the spiritual instruction being given on the battlefield: the wise, by equanimity and renunciation of outcomes, transcend karmic entanglement even amid the pressures of war and duty.