योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणं ज्ञानसञ्छिन्नसंशयम् | आत्मवन्तं न कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय ||४-४१||
yogasaṃnyastakarmāṇaṃ jñānasañchinnasaṃśayam . ātmavantaṃ na karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanañjaya ||4-41||
Chapter 4 · Verse 41
Jnana Yoga
ज्ञानयोग
In plain words
Sri Madhusudana Sarasvati explains Atmavantam as always watchful. He who has attained to Selfrealisation renounces all actions by means of Yoga or the knowledge of Brahman. As he is established in the knowledge of the identity of the individual soul with the,Supreme Soul all his doubts are cut asunder.
Translation
4.41 Actions do not bind him, O Arjuna, who has renounced them through Karma Yoga and whose doubts are sundered by knowledge, and who therefore possesses a steady mind.
Meaning
Sri Madhusudana Sarasvati explains Atmavantam as always watchful. He who has attained to Selfrealisation renounces all actions by means of Yoga or the knowledge of Brahman. As he is established in the knowledge of the identity of the individual soul with the,Supreme Soul all his doubts are cut asunder. Actions do not bind him as they are burnt in the fire of wisdom and as he is always watchful over himself. (Cf. II.48III.9IV.20)
Word by word
योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणम् one who has renounced actions by Yoga ज्ञानसंछिन्नसंशयम् one whose doubts are rent asunder by knowledge आत्मवन्तम् possessing the self न not कर्माणि actions निबध्नन्ति bind धनञ्जय O Dhananjaya.