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 ||
ಸಂಜಯನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—“ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಸಮಬುದ್ಧಿಯಿಂದ ಯುಕ್ತರಾದ ಜ್ಞಾನಿಗಳು ಕರ್ಮಗಳಿಂದ ಉಂಟಾಗುವ ಫಲವನ್ನು ತ್ಯಜಿಸಿ, ಜನ್ಮಬಂಧನದಿಂದ ಮುಕ್ತರಾಗಿ, ವಿಕಾರರಹಿತ ಅನಾಮಯ ಪರಮಪದವನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತಾರೆ.”
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.