न मे पार्थास्ति कर्तव्यं त्रिषु लोकेषु किञ्चन।नानवाप्तमवाप्तव्यं वर्त एव च कर्मणि॥
na me pārthāsti kartavyaṃ triṣu lokeṣu kiñcananānavāptam avāptavyaṃ varta eva ca karmaṇi
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
There is nothing in all three worlds that I have to do, Arjuna, nothing I lack and nothing to get. And I am at work anyway.
सरल शब्दों में
Krishna applies the argument to himself, and it is the strongest form of it.
He has no duty. Nothing unobtained. Nothing to gain anywhere in existence.
And: varta eva ca karmaṇi — and yet I am engaged in work. He is the exception from verse 17, and he is working.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
The best player in the squad is first to training and last to leave. They have nothing left to prove and everyone knows it. That is exactly what makes the habit impossible to argue with.
और गहराई में
This is the move that makes the chapter's argument unanswerable, and it costs Krishna something to make it.
He has just described the person who need not act — content in himself, needing nothing from anyone. Then he says: that is me. And then he says he works anyway.
Arjuna's escape route is now completely closed. He cannot claim the exemption, because the one being who unquestionably holds it has declined to use it.
There is also something quietly enormous in the phrasing. Na anavāptam avāptavyam — nothing unattained that needs attaining. For a being in that position, every action is surplus. Nothing he does is for himself.
Which makes him the only pure case of what verse 19 described. Everyone else who acts without attachment is approximating something. Here it is, unmixed, standing in a chariot holding someone else's reins.