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 ||
सञ्जय उवाच— कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः । जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ताः पदं गच्छन्त्यनामयम् ॥ समबुद्धियुक्ताः मनीषिणः कर्मजं फलं परित्यज्य पुनर्जन्मबन्धनात् विनिर्मुक्ताः अनामयं परमं पदं प्राप्नुवन्ति।
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.