यस्य नाहंकृतो भावो बुद्धिर्यस्य न लिप्यते ।
हत्वापि स इमाँल्लोकान्न हन्ति न निबध्यते ॥
हत्वापि स इमाँल्लोकान्न हन्ति न निबध्यते ॥
हिन्दी अनुवाद
जिसका अहंकृतभाव नहीं है और जिसकी बुद्धि लिप्त नहीं होती, वह इन सम्पूर्ण प्राणियोंको मारकर भी न मारता है और न बँधता है ॥
English
One who has no sense of separate self and whose understanding remains unstained does not kill, even by killing all these beings, and is not bound.
श्लोक का अर्थ
A person who has dropped ego and stays inwardly untouched is not truly the killer, and is not trapped by the act.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Krishna is still answering Arjuna's panic about action and guilt. After explaining the many causes behind any deed, he now says the deepest shift is to lose the sense of separate doership. Then even the hardest action does not bind.
आज के संदर्भ में
You make the call that ends a broken partnership. The words are heavy, but you do not have to carry them as personal guilt if you acted from clarity, not ego.
सार
There is relief in seeing that action does not have to stain you when ego is absent.
शब्दार्थ
यस्य (whose) / न (not) / अहंकृतः (made by ego; marked by separate self) / भावः (state) / बुद्धिः (understanding) / यस्य (whose) / न (not) / लिप्यते (is stained; clings) / हत्वा अपि (even after killing) / सः (that one) / इमान् लोकान् (these beings) / न (not) / हन्ति (kills) / न (not) / निबध्यते (is bound)
यह श्लोक भगवद् गीता अध्याय 18: मोक्ष संन्यास योग — मोक्ष-संन्यास का योग का भाग है, जिसमें कुल 78 श्लोक हैं।
संबंधित विषय: nishkama (14 श्लोक)