Sanskrit
अनिष्टमिष्टं मिश्रं च त्रिविधं कर्मणः फलम् । भवत्यत्यागिनां प्रेत्य न तु संन्यासिनां क्वचित् ॥ १२ ॥
aniṣṭam iṣṭaṃ miśraṃ ca trividhaṃ karmaṇaḥ phalam bhavaty atyāginām pretya na tu saṃnyāsināṃ kvacit
Translation
Good, evil and mixed—threefold is the fruit of action hereafter for the non-relinquisher; but there is none ever for the renouncer.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The stakes of the distinction: three kinds of fruit — good, evil, and mixed — accrue after death to anyone who has not relinquished results, while the one who has relinquished gets none of these at all, for better or worse. This is the karmic bookkeeping made explicit: fruit-attachment isn’t just morally worse, it’s what keeps the ledger open in the first place.