Shloka 23
ध्यानयोगः — Dhyāna-Yoga
Discipline of Meditation and Mental Restraint
गतसड्स्य मुक्तस्य ज्ञानावस्थितचेतस: । यज्ञायाचरत: कर्म समग्र प्रविलीयते
gatasāṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthitacetasaḥ | yajñāyācarataḥ karma samagraṁ pravilīyate ||
Для того, кто превзошёл привязанность и внутренне свободен, чьё сознание утверждено в истинном знании и кто совершает действие как приношение яджне (жертвоприношению), вся карма полностью растворяется: связывающий остаток не прилипает, ибо деяние совершается без присвоения и ради священной цели, а не ради личной выгоды.
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
When action is performed without attachment and offered as yajña—without egoistic ownership or craving for results—it does not generate binding karma; instead, the karmic residue is said to dissolve because the agent is established in knowledge and freedom.
In the Gītā’s teaching context on the battlefield, the instruction clarifies how one may continue to act (including in a difficult duty-bound situation) while remaining ethically and spiritually unbound: by acting with steady knowledge and offering the act to yajña rather than to personal desire.