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Bhagavad Gita 2.51

कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः।जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ताः पदं गच्छन्त्यनामयम्॥

karmajaṃ buddhiyuktā hi phalaṃ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ |janmabandhavinirmuktāḥ padaṃ gacchantyanāmayam ||

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.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

The sages, guided by pure intellect, renounce the fruits of their actions; and, thus freed from the shackles of rebirth, they attain the highest bliss.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 2.51 · SatsangVidya