Sanskrit
न हि देहभृता शक्यं त्यक्तुं कर्माण्यशेषतः । यस्तु कर्मफलत्यागी स त्यागीत्यभिधीयते ॥ ११ ॥
na hi dehabhṛtā śakyaṃ tyaktuṃ karmāṇy aśeṣataḥ yas tu karmaphalatyāgī sa tyāgīty abhidhīyate
Translation
Nor indeed can embodied beings completely relinquish action; verily he who relinquisheth the fruit of action, he is said to be a relinquisher.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
A pragmatic caveat: no embodied being can literally stop acting altogether, a point already made in chapter 3’s argument against total inaction, so the only coherent form of “relinquisher” is someone who has given up the fruit of action, not action as such. This line effectively redefines tyaga for the rest of the discourse and, by extension, quietly narrows what sannyasa can mean too — total cessation of activity was never really on the table for a living body.