शुभाशुभफलैरेवं मोक्ष्यसे कर्मबन्धनैः।संन्यासयोगयुक्तात्मा विमुक्तो मामुपैष्यसि॥
śubhāśubha-phalair evaṃ mokṣyase karma-bandhanaiḥsannyāsa-yoga-yuktātmā vimukto mām upaiṣyasi
Word by word
The verse says
So you will be freed from the bonds of action, from its good results and its bad ones alike. Set free, with your mind joined in the yoga of letting go, you will come to me.
In plain words
Look at which results you are being freed from.
Not the bad ones only. Śubha-aśubha — the lovely and the unlovely, both.
Good outcomes tie you up as effectively as bad ones. That is the half nobody expects.
Where you've felt this · in friendship
Two people did you a large favour last year. One has never mentioned it since, and is easy to be around. The other has never mentioned it either, and is waiting, and you both know it. Neither will ever say a word out loud. Good deeds make debts in both directions, and the pleasant ones are no lighter to carry.
Going deeper
Being tied by success is the idea most readers slide past, and it is the one doing the work here.
A bad outcome obviously binds — you carry it, replay it, work to correct it. But a good one attaches just as firmly. It has to be maintained, defended, repeated. It sets a level you are now responsible for, and it quietly becomes the thing you are protecting.
This is why the freedom described is from both, and why the word for the practice is one of setting down rather than one of winning.
It has a practical form you can check. Think of something that went very well for you a few years ago. Ask whether it is still, in some way, something you are carrying. If it is, the verse is describing a real weight and not an abstraction.