Gita Verse 2.51

Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 51

Sanskrit Verse

कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः।

जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ताः पदं गच्छन्त्यनामयम्।।2.51।।

Transliteration

karma-jaṁ buddhi-yuktā hi phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣhiṇaḥ

janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ padaṁ gachchhanty-anāmayam

Word meanings

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

Swami Sivananda's translation

The wise, possessing knowledge, having abandoned the fruits of their actions, and being freed from the bonds of birth, go to the place which is beyond all evil.

Chapter link: Gita Chapter 2