न कर्मणामनारम्भान्नैष्कर्म्यं पुरुषोऽश्नुते ।
न च संन्यसनादेव सिद्धिं समधिगच्छति ॥
न च संन्यसनादेव सिद्धिं समधिगच्छति ॥
हिन्दी अनुवाद
मनुष्य न तो कर्मोंका आरम्भ किये बिना निष्कर्मताको प्राप्त होता है और न कर्मोंके त्यागमात्रसे सिद्धिको ही प्राप्त होता है ॥
English
A person does not reach actionless freedom by avoiding action, nor by renouncing action alone does one reach perfection.
श्लोक का अर्थ
Freedom does not come from simply stopping action, and perfection does not come from merely giving things up. Real growth requires a deeper way of acting.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna has asked for one clear answer. Krishna now corrects a false choice: neither doing nothing nor merely dropping responsibilities brings the highest state. The teaching must now move toward disciplined action without inner bondage.
आज के संदर्भ में
You quit the project, mute every notification, and hope the pressure disappears. It doesn’t. Relief comes when your relationship to action changes, not when action vanishes.
सार
You can stop running without becoming free. What matters is the inner way you act, not just whether you act at all.
शब्दार्थ
न (not) / कर्मणाम् (of actions) / अनारम्भात् (from non-beginning) / नैष्कर्म्यम् (actionlessness) / पुरुषः (a person) / अश्नुते (attains) । न (not) / च (and) / संन्यसनात् (by renunciation) / एव (alone) / सिद्धिम् (perfection) / समधिगच्छति (reaches)
यह श्लोक भगवद् गीता अध्याय 3: कर्म योग — कर्म का योग का भाग है, जिसमें कुल 43 श्लोक हैं।
संबंधित विषय: nishkama (14 श्लोक), renunciation (14 श्लोक), sannyasa (12 श्लोक)