ॐ

कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः। जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ताः पदं गच्छन्त्यनामयम्।।2.51।।

karma-jaṁ buddhi-yuktā hi phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣhiṇaḥ janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ padaṁ gachchhanty-anāmayam

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 51
0:000:00

Scripture Translation Room

Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The wise, possessing knowledge, having abandoned the fruits of their actions, and being freed from the bonds of birth, go to the place which is beyond all evil.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: the wise, having released the fruit of action, reaching a place beyond harm describes less a reward elsewhere and more what it feels like to stop bracing for outcomes.

In life: constantly bracing for bad news is its own low-grade suffering, separate from whatever the news turns out to be.

Teaching: practice noticing when you're bracing for an outcome that hasn't happened yet, and consciously relax that bracing, whatever the eventual result turns out to be.

karma-jamborn of fruitive actions
buddhi-yuktāḥendowed with equanimity of intellect
hias
phalamfruits
tyaktvāabandoning
manīṣhiṇaḥthe wise
janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥfreedom from the bondage of life and death
padamstate
gachchhantiattain
anāmayamdevoid of sufferings

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
2.51 कर्मजम् actionborn? बुद्धियुक्ताः possessed of knowledsge? हि indeed? फलम् the fruit? त्यक्त्वा having abandoned? मनीषिणः the wise? जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ताः freed from the fetters of birth? पदम् the abode? गच्छन्ति go? अनामयम् beyond evil.Commentary Clinging to the fruits of actions is the cause of rirth. Man takes a body to enjoy them. If anyone performs actions for the sake of God in fulfilment of His purpose without desire for the fruits? he is released from the bonds of birth and attains to the blissful state or the immortal abode.Sages who possess evenness of mind abandon the fruits of their actions and thus escape from good and bad actions.Buddhi referred to in the three verses 49? 50 and 51 may be the wisdom of the Sankhyas? i.e.? the knowledge of the Self or AtmaJnana which dawns when the mind is purified by Karma Yoga.