काङ्क्षन्तः कर्मणां सिद्धिं यजन्त इह देवताः।क्षिप्रं हि मानुषे लोके सिद्धिर्भवति कर्मजा॥
kāṅkṣantaḥ karmaṇāṃ siddhiṃ yajanta iha devatāḥkṣipraṃ hi mānuṣe loke siddhir bhavati karmajā
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
People who want their actions to succeed make offerings to the powers here. Results come quickly in the human world, from what is done.
सरल शब्दों में
A flat observation with no criticism attached, which is itself surprising.
People want things to work. So they direct their offerings where results come fastest.
And Krishna simply says: yes, that works. Kṣipram — quickly. Results do come.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
The short-term approach genuinely does pay, visibly, this quarter. That is exactly why it is hard to argue with and why almost everyone takes it.
और गहराई में
The absence of condemnation here is the interesting thing, especially after 2.42–2.43 where ritual done for results got a much sharper treatment.
Krishna concedes the mechanism. Directed effort produces results, and it produces them fast. He does not say it is false.
What he leaves unsaid is what 2.43 said plainly: results end, and a life organised around obtaining them is a longer version of the same striving. The critique is not repeated because it has already been made.
Karma-jā siddhiḥ — success born of action. The phrase is neutral. This is a description of how the world works, offered to someone who is about to be told that there is something else available.
And the honesty is worth crediting. A text that wanted converts would deny that the ordinary approach works. The Gita says it works, quickly, and then goes on to describe something it is not competing with on those terms.