एवं ज्ञात्वा कृतं कर्म पूर्वैरपि मुमुक्षुभिः।कुरु कर्मैव तस्मात्त्वं पूर्वैः पूर्वतरं कृतम्॥
evaṃ jñātvā kṛtaṃ karma pūrvair api mumukṣubhiḥkuru karmaiva tasmāttvaṃ pūrvaiḥ pūrvataraṃ kṛtam
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
Knowing this, people long ago who wanted to be free still did the work. So do the work — the way it was done before you, long before.
सरल शब्दों में
The conclusion, and it is an instruction to copy.
The ones who wanted liberation — mumukṣubhiḥ — did not stop working. They understood this and kept going.
And then the odd, doubled phrasing: pūrvaiḥ pūrvataraṁ kṛtam — done by the ancients, done still earlier.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
You do it the way your mother did it, and she did it the way hers did, and nobody in the chain sat down and decided it was the right method. It simply kept working and kept being passed on.
और गहराई में
The doubling at the end is not clumsy. Pūrvaiḥ pūrvataram — by the ancients, more anciently still — pushes the precedent back past the reach of the sentence.
It is the same move as yadā yadā and yuge yuge. The chapter keeps using repetition to stretch time, and the effect is to make the practice older than any account of it.
What is being claimed is that liberation-seekers historically did not withdraw. Mumukṣu is the technical word for someone whose aim is release, and the Gita says those people worked.
That is the argument of Chapter 3 arriving with a lineage attached. First it was made structurally: you cannot stop, so the question is how. Now it is made historically: the ones who got there did it this way.
And it closes the loop with the chapter's opening. Verse 1 traced a chain of transmission. Verse 15 says the chain was not carrying a doctrine to be believed but a way of working, and hands it to Arjuna as something to do.