Chapter 4 Overview
Verse 4.23
गतसङ्गस्य मुक्तस्य ज्ञानावस्थितचेतसः। यज्ञायाचरतः कर्म समग्रं प्रविलीयते।।4.23।।
gata-saṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-chetasaḥ yajñāyācharataḥ karma samagraṁ pravilīyate
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 4, Verse 23
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
To one who is devoid of attachment, who is liberated, whose mind is established in knowledge, and who works for the sake of sacrifice (for the sake of God), the whole action is dissolved.
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Why: for one free from attachment, liberated, whose mind is established in knowledge, acting only as a sacrifice, action dissolves entirely, meaning it leaves no binding residue.
In life: work done with a clear, generous purpose tends not to leave the same lingering resentment or exhaustion that work done resentfully does.
Teaching: before starting a demanding task, deliberately frame it as offered toward something meaningful, that framing changes how much residue the task leaves in you afterward.
gata-saṅgasyafree from material attachments
muktasyaof the liberated
jñāna-avasthitaestablished in divine knowledge
chetasaḥwhose intellect
yajñāyaas a sacrifice (to God)
ācharataḥperforming
karmaaction
samagramcompletely
pravilīyateare freed
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
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4.23 गतसङ्गस्य one who is devoid of attachment? मुक्तस्य of the liberated? ज्ञानावस्थितचेतसः whose mind is established in knowledge? यज्ञाय for sacrifice? आचरतः acting? कर्म action? समग्रम् whole? प्रविलीयते is dissolved.Commentary One who is free from attachment? who is liberated from the bonds of Karma? whose mind is centred and rooted in wisdom? who performs actions for the sake of sacrifice? in order to please the Lord -- all his actions with their results melt away. His actions are reduced to nothing. They are? in fact? no actions at all.