🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 4.41

4.41 योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणम् one who has renounced actions by Yoga? ज्ञानसंछिन्नसंशयम् one whose doubts are rent asunder by knowledge? आत्मवन्तम् possessing the self? न not? कर्माणि actions? निबध्नन्ति bind? धनञ्जय O Dhananjaya.Commentary Sri Madhusudana Sarasvati explains Atmavantam as always watchful.He who has attained to Selfrealisation renounces all actions by means of Yoga or the knowledge of Brahman. As he is established in the knowledge of the identity of the individual soul with the,Supreme Soul? all his doubts are cut asunder. Actions do not bind him as they are burnt in the fire of wisdom and as he is always watchful over himself. (Cf.II.48III.9IV.20)

4.41 Yoga-sannyasta-karmanam, one who has renounced actions through yoga: that person who is a knower of the supreme Goal, by whom actions called righteous or unrighteous have been renounced through the yoga characterized as the Knowledge of the supreme Goal. How does one become detached from actions through yoga? The Lord says: He is jnana-samchinna-samsayah, one whose doubts (samsaya) have been fully dispelled (samchinna) by Knowledge (jnana) characterized as the realization of the identity of the individual Self and God. O Dhananjaya, he who has thus renounced actions through yoga, atmavantam, who is not inadvertent, not careless; him, karmani, actions, seen as the activities of the gunas (see 3.28); na nibadhnanti, do not bind, (i.e.) they do not produce a result in the form of evil etc. Since one whose doubts have been destroyed by Knowledge-arising from the destruction of the impurities (of body, mind, etc.) as result of the practise of Karma-yoga-does not get bound by acitons owing to the mere fact of his actions having been burnt away by Knowledge; and since one who has doubts with regard to the practice of the yogas of Knowledge and actions gets ruined-

4.41 The countless ancient Karmas which constitute the cause of bondage, do not bind him who has renounced actions through Karma Yoga in the manner explained before, who has sundered all doubts concerning the self by the knowledge of the self in the manner explained before, and who is of steady mind, i.e., unshakable, with the mind focussed steadily on the meaning that has been forth.

4.41 Yoga-etc. Renunciation of actions becomes possible only through Yoga and not otherwise. This has been discussed also [in the seel].

।।4.41।। इस अध्याय में विस्तारपूर्वक बतायी हुयी जीवन जीने की कला को इस श्लोक में अत्यन्त सुन्दर प्रकार से संक्षेप में बताया गया है। कर्मसंन्यास से तात्पर्य फलासक्ति के त्याग से है। जब हम कर्मयोग की भावना से कर्म करते हुये कर्मफलों की आसक्ति त्यागना सीख लेते हैं तथा आत्मानुभवरूप ज्ञान के द्वारा जीवन के लक्ष्य सम्बन्धी हमारे सब संशय छिन्नभिन्न हो जाते हैं तब अहंकार नष्ट होकर शुद्ध आत्मस्वरूप में हमारी स्थिति दृढ़ हो जाती है। ऐसा आत्मवान् पुरुष कर्म करता हुआ भी उनसे नहीं बन्धता।कर्तृत्व के अभिमान तथा स्वार्थ से प्रेरित होकर किये गये कर्म ही वासनाएं उत्पन्न करके हमें बन्धन में डालते हैं। कर्मयोग की भावना से निरहंकार होकर कर्म करने पर बन्धन नहीं हो सकता। स्वप्न में स्वप्न की पत्नी की हत्या करने पर स्वाप्निक दण्ड तो भोगना पड़ सकता है परन्तु स्वप्न द्रष्टा के जागने पर जाग्रत् अवस्था में उसे कोई दण्ड नहीं दे सकता क्योंकि स्वप्न के साथसाथ स्वप्न द्रष्टा भी नष्ट हो जाता है। जाग्रत्पुरुष को स्वप्न द्रष्टा का किया कर्म नहीं बांध सकता। इसी प्रकार अहंकार पूर्वक किये गये कर्म अहंकार के लिये बन्धनकारक हो सकते हैं परन्तु आत्मानुभूति में उसके ही नष्ट हो जाने पर आत्मा को वे कर्म कैसे बांध सकेंगे जिसका अहंकार नष्ट हो चुका है उसी पुरुष को यहाँ आत्मवान् कहा गया है।इस आत्मज्ञान का फल सर्वश्रेष्ठ है इसलिये श्रीकृष्ण अर्जुन को उपदेश देते हैं कि