Results of Karma-Yoga.
कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः ।
जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ताः पदं गच्छन्त्यनामयम् ॥ ५१ ॥
karmajaṃ buddhiyuktā hi phalaṃ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ .
janmabandhavinirmuktāḥ padaṃ gacchantyanāmayam .. 51 ..
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For, men of wisdom, possessing evenness of mind, cast off the fruit of works i.e., escape from good and bad births. They then attain knowledge. While still alive, they are released from the bond of birth, and attain the supreme abode of Viṣṇu—the state of moksha or liberation…which is free from all turmoils.
Or, the wisdom (buddhi) referred to in the three verses (ii. 49—51) may be the Sāṅkhya-(not the Yoga-) wisdom, the knowledge of the Absolute Reality, (corresponding to the wide-spread expanse of water), which arises when the mind is purified by Karma-Yoga; for, it is said in ii. 50 that wisdom directly brings about the destruction of good and bad deeds.
When is that conviction attained which (it is said) arises as soon as the mind is purified by Karma-Yoga or devotion through works? The answer follows :