Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 51

कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः । जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ताः पदं गच्छन्त्यनामयम्

karmajaṃ buddhiyuktā hi phalaṃ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ | janmabandhavinirmuktāḥ padaṃ gacchantyanāmayam

Translation

For, men of wisdom cast off the fruit of action; possessed of knowledge (and) released from the bond of birth, they go to the place where there is no evil.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

karmajam

action-born

buddhiyuktāḥ

united to Buddhi

hi

indeed

phalam

the fruit

tyaktvā

having abandoned

manīṣiṇaḥ

the wise

janmabandhavinirmuktāḥ

of birth, from the bondage, freed

padam

the abode

gacchanti

go

anāmayam

painless

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

Wise men — endowed with the equipoise of Yoga-wisdom — cast off the fruit of action which would otherwise be good or bad births. Possessed of right knowledge, released from the bond of birth, they reach the place (padam) which is free from every evil — the Supreme Vaiṣṇava state, mokṣa. This verse states the result that flows from the discipline taught in 2.48 and 2.50.