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“Action loses its grip when it becomes offering, not possession.”
जिसकी आसक्ति सर्वथा मिट गयी है, जो मुक्त हो गया है, जिसकी बुद्धि स्वरूपके ज्ञानमें स्थित है, ऐसे केवल यज्ञके लिये कर्म करनेवाले मनुष्यके सम्पूर्ण कर्म विलीन हो जाते हैं ॥
श्लोक क्रम में — हर संस्कृत शब्द और नीचे उसका अर्थ। किसी शब्द पर टैप करके उसे देखें।
शब्दशःof one gone beyond attachment · of one freed · of one whose mind is established in knowledge · for sacrifice · practising · action · entire · melts away
When attachment is gone and the mind rests in clear understanding, work done as an offering no longer binds a person.
यह श्लोक Krishna द्वारा कहा गया है, कुरुक्षेत्र की भूमि पर, अध्याय "ज्ञान कर्म संन्यास योग" में।
श्लोक 23 भगवद् गीता के 4वें अध्याय में है — ज्ञान कर्म संन्यास योग। इस अध्याय में कुल 42 श्लोक हैं।
A son cooks for his bedridden mother every night as an offering to her, keeping no tally of what it costs him. Krishna says work done in that spirit leaves no bondage behind.
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Work done as yajna, by someone free of attachment and settled in knowledge, melts away without binding.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
When attachment is gone and the mind rests in clear understanding, work done as an offering no longer binds a person.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
Krishna keeps teaching Arjuna, frozen before the war, how action can be purified. Here he says that when a person is free of attachment and grounded in knowledge, even action disappears as bondage if it is done purely as sacrifice.
आज के जीवन में महत्व
A son cooks for his bedridden mother every night as an offering to her, keeping no tally of what it costs him. Krishna says work done in that spirit leaves no bondage behind.
“Work offered freely, without clinging, leaves no chain behind.”
संबंधित विषय: yajna (32 श्लोक), attachment (20 श्लोक), nishkama karma (12 श्लोक)