Chapter 2, Verse 51
Sankhya Yoga — Sanskrit shloka, transliteration, word meanings, English translation, and commentary.
Original Sanskrit verse
Transliteration
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
English 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.
— Swami Sivananda
Listen to Shloka 2.51
Commentary
Clinging to the fruits of actions is the cause of rirth. Man takes a body to enjoy them. If anyone performs actions for the sake of God in fulfilment of His purpose without desire for the fruits; he is released from the bonds of birth and attains to the blissful state or the immortal abode. Sages who possess evenness of mind abandon the fruits of their actions and thus escape from good and bad actions. Buddhi referred to in the three verses 49; 50 and 51 may be the wisdom of the Sankhyas; i.e.; the knowledge of the Self or AtmaJnana which dawns when the mind is purified by Karma Yoga.
Commentary by Swami Sivananda
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