2.38 Then you take on no wrong Krishna speaks

सुखदुःखे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ
ततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व नैवं पापमवाप्स्यसि

sukha-duḥkhe same kṛitvā lābhālābhau jayājayau
tato yuddhāya yujyasva naivaṁ pāpam avāpsyasi

Treating pleasure and pain alike, gain and loss, victory and defeat — then engage in the fight, and you take on no wrong.

Explanation

And then, abruptly, the real answer starts.

Treating pleasure and pain alike, gain and loss, victory and defeat — then engage, and you take on no wrong.

Everything in 2.31–2.37 was about outcomes. This verse says the freedom from wrongdoing comes from being even about all of them, which retires the argument it just finished making.

Word by word

sukha: happiness
duḥkhe: in distress
same kṛitvā: treating alike
lābha-alābhau: gain and loss
jaya-ajayau: victory and defeat
tataḥ: thereafter
yuddhāya: for fighting
yujyasva: engage
na: never
evam: thus
pāpam: sin
avāpsyasi: shall incur