येषां त्वन्तगतं पापं जनानां पुण्यकर्मणाम्।ते द्वन्द्वमोहनिर्मुक्ता भजन्ते मां दृढव्रताः॥
yeṣāṃ tvanta-gataṃ pāpaṃ janānāṃ puṇya-karmaṇāmte dvandva-moha-nirmuktā bhajante māṃ dṛḍha-vratāḥ
Word by word
The verse says
But those whose wrong has come to an end, whose deeds are clean, are released from the confusion of opposites and worship me with a steady vow.
In plain words
The way out is not described as insight here. It is described as a life that has quietly settled.
Anta-gatam pāpam — the wrong has come to an end. Not been forgiven. Ended.
And then the pairs lose their grip, and devotion becomes steady instead of occasional.
Where you've felt this · in community
An older neighbour helps you push your car when it will not start on a cold morning. Afterwards you offer tea and he says no, and it is a real no, not the kind that wants pressing. Nothing is being banked. You only notice because most help arrives with a small account attached, and this did not.
Going deeper
Clean conduct is being put before clear seeing, and the order is deliberate.
A modern reader expects understanding to come first and behaviour to follow from it. Here it runs the other way. When the background noise of small wrongs dies down — the score-keeping, the quiet resentments, the favours logged and remembered — the pairs stop finding anything to grip.
That is not a reward being handed out for good behaviour. It is mechanical. Pulling toward and pushing away need a self with open accounts to work on. Settle the accounts and the same events arrive carrying much less charge.
Dṛḍha-vratāḥ, of firm vow, is what becomes possible then. Steadiness of that kind is rarely a matter of willpower. It usually turns out to be what is left over once a person stops spending everything on being owed.