4.41 Actions do not bind Krishna speaks
योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणं ज्ञानसंछिन्नसंशयम्
आत्मवन्तं न कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय
yoga-sannyasta-karmāṇaṁ jñāna-sañchhinna-sanśhayam
ātmavantaṁ na karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanañjaya
One who has given up action through practice, whose doubts are cut away by knowledge, who is established in the self — actions do not bind that person.
Explanation
Actions do not bind such a person.
Doubts cut away by knowledge, established in the self — and the chapter's promise closes where 4.14 opened it.
The sword arrives in the next verse, and it has been prepared for by this one: what it cuts is named here as doubt, not desire and not the enemy.
Word by word
- yoga-sannyasta-karmāṇam
- those who renounce ritualistic karm, dedicating their body, mind, and soul to God
- jñāna
- by knowledge
- sañchhinna
- dispelled
- sanśhayam
- doubts
- ātma-vantam
- situated in knowledge of the self
- na
- not
- karmāṇi
- actions
- nibadhnanti
- bind
- dhanañjaya
- Arjun, the conqueror of wealth
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