2.51 A state beyond harm Krishna speaks
कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः
जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ताः पदं गच्छन्त्यनामयम्
karma-jaṁ buddhi-yuktā hi phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣhiṇaḥ
janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ padaṁ gachchhanty-anāmayam
The wise, joined to understanding, let go of the fruit born of action, and freed from the bondage of birth they reach a state beyond harm.
Explanation
A state beyond harm.
The wise let go of the fruit, and freed from the bondage of birth reach anāmayam — the place with no sickness in it.
The word is medical. Of all the terms available for liberation, the chapter reaches for one meaning not being ill, which is of a piece with laundry and tortoises.
Word by word
- karma-jam
- born of fruitive actions
- buddhi-yuktāḥ
- endowed with equanimity of intellect
- hi
- as
- phalam
- fruits
- tyaktvā
- abandoning
- manīṣhiṇaḥ
- the wise
- janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ
- freedom from the bondage of life and death
- padam
- state
- gachchhanti
- attain
- anāmayam
- devoid of sufferings
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