युक्तः कर्मफलं त्यक्त्वा शान्तिमाप्नोति नैष्ठिकीम्।अयुक्तः कामकारेण फले सक्तो निबध्यते॥
yuktaḥ karma-phalaṃ tyaktvā śāntim āpnoti naiṣṭhikīmayuktaḥ kāma-kāreṇa phale sakto nibadhyate
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
The one who is joined, giving up what his action will fetch, reaches a settled peace. The one who is not, pulled by wanting, attached to the fruit, is bound.
सरल शब्दों में
Two people, same action, opposite results.
The difference is not what they did. It is what they were reaching for while doing it.
Naiṣṭhikī — settled, final. Not a mood that passes.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
Two mothers watch the same school play. One is entirely in it. The other is measuring her daughter against the girl who got the bigger part. The play lasts ninety minutes for both of them, and only one of them was there.
और गहराई में
The contrast is sharper than most of the Gita's pairs, and it turns on one word.
Kāma-kāreṇa — by the working of wanting. Not because he is a bad man. The wanting is described as a mechanism operating on him, which is consistent with how Chapter 3 treated desire: as something with a location and a method, not a moral failing.
So the bound person is not being blamed. He is being described as driven, and the difference between him and the other one is not effort or virtue. It is where each of them is standing relative to the outcome.
That has an uncomfortable implication worth stating. You cannot tell these two apart from outside, and you often cannot tell which one you are from inside either, because the wanting supplies its own reasons.
The only reliable test the Gita offers is the one at 2.48: what happens in you when the result comes out the other way.