📿 Shloka Collection

Gatasangasya Muktasya

Gita 4.23 Bhagavad Gita
📖 Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4 — Gyana Karma Sannyasa Yoga
गतसङ्गस्य मुक्तस्य ज्ञानावस्थितचेतसः ।
यज्ञायाचरतः कर्म समग्रं प्रविलीयते ॥
Gatasangasya muktasya jnanavasthita-chetasah
Yajnayacharatah karma samagram praviliyate
गतसङ्गस्य
of one free from attachment
मुक्तस्य
of one who is liberated
ज्ञानावस्थितचेतसः
whose mind is established in knowledge
यज्ञाय
as yajna (offering)
आचरतः
performing
कर्म
action
समग्रम्
entirely, completely
प्रविलीयते
dissolves

A river flows with great force, carrying silt and debris. But when it enters the ocean, everything it carried merges into something far vaster. Krishna says the same happens to karma. For the one who is free from attachment, liberated, with mind steady in knowledge, and who performs every action as an offering — all karma dissolves completely.

The word 'yajna' here means more than a fire ritual. It means the spirit of offering — doing your work as something given, not something grasped. When action is performed in this spirit, it leaves no residue, no bondage, no trace.

This shloka is the summation of 4.19-4.22. The gyana yogi's state, described across four shlokas, reaches its conclusion: all karma dissolves when action is performed as yajna.

The next shloka (4.24) introduces the famous Brahma-yajna vision: the offering, the fire, the offerer — everything is Brahman.

Chapter 4 · 23 / 42
Chapter 4 · 23 / 42 Next →