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Chapter 4

Chapter 4 · Verse 23

Jnana Yoga

ज्ञानयोग

गतसङ्गस्य मुक्तस्य ज्ञानावस्थितचेतसः | यज्ञायाचरतः कर्म समग्रं प्रविलीयते ||४-२३||

gatasaṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthitacetasaḥ . yajñāyācarataḥ karma samagraṃ pravilīyate ||4-23||

In plain words

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.

Translation

4.23 Of one whose attachments are gone, who is free, whose mind is established in knowledge, who works only for sacrifices, his Karma is entirely dissolved.

Meaning

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.

Word by word

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.