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Chapter 2
Link:-The Lord now gives examples to substantiate what has been said in the preceding verse.
karmajam buddhiyukta hi phalam tyaktva manisinali
janmabandhavhdrmuktahpadamgacehantyanamayam
As wise men endowed with equanimity, renounce the fruits of actions, they also freed from the shackles of births and attain the blissful supreme state. 51
Comment:
Karmajam buddhiyukta hi phalarh tyaktva manisinah:-Those endowed with equanimity, are really wise. In the tenth verse of the eighteenth chapter also, it is explained that, the man who does not hate disagreeable action nor is attached to an agreeable one, is wise.
An action even without the desire for its fruit will bring about fruit. No one can dispense with its fruit. Suppose a farmer sows seed without a selfish motive, will he not get corn? He will definitely get corn. In the same way if a person works in a detached spirit, he will get its fruit. Therefore, renunciation of fruit means, renunciation of manifest and latent desires for fruit and attachment for fruit. All people are free and capable of renouncing such desires.
Janmabandhavinirmuktah:-The wise aspirants, endowed with equanimity of mind are freed from the wheel of birth and death. As in the state of equanimity, they do not in the least, possess evils, such as attachment and aversion etc., which are the root cause of rebirth. Thus they become free from the shackles of birth and death, forever.
Padam gacchantyanamayam:-Amaya means ailment. An ailment is a blemish. A thing which is free from all sorts of blemishes is called 'Anamaya (spotless). Wise people endowed with equanimity attain the state, which is free from any kind of blemish. This state has been called eternal state, in the fifth verse of the fifteenth chapter and 'everlasting imperishable state', in the fifty-sixth verse of the eighteenth chapter.
Though in the Gita (in 14/6) sattva quality (the mode of goodness) has also been called flawless, yet in fact, the self or God is flawless because by attaining Him one has not to follow the wheel of birth and death. Lord Krsna has called Sattva quality also flawless, because that also helps a man in attaining God-realization.
Self (soul) is immutable while the evolutes of matter (nature)—body and the world are mutable. When this self (soul) identifies itself with the mutable body, it itself assumes taint with mutable nature. But, when it renounces this assumed identification, it realizes its pure self. This is a blissful supreme state, free from evil.
In this verse the terms 'buddhiyukta' and 'manisinah' have been used in the plural, to express the idea that all those who get established in equanimity undoubtedly attain the blissful supreme state, without any exception. It proves that when a striver has no affinity to the perishable body and the world, he attains that state automatically. No effort is required for such a state to be created, as it always is there.
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