Sanskrit
यज्ञशिष्टाशिनः सन्तो मुच्यन्ते सर्वकिल्बिषैः । भुञ्जते ते त्वघं पापा ये पचन्त्यात्मकारणात् ॥
yajñaśiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarvakilbiṣaiḥ bhuñjate te tv aghaṃ pāpā ye pacanty ātmakāraṇāt
Translation
The righteous, who eat the remains of the sacrifice, are freed from all sins; but the impious, who dress food for their own sakes, they verily eat sin.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The theft charge from verse 12 gets its positive contrast: eating only what remains after offering is what the “righteous” do, and it’s this remainder-eating, not abstinence, that frees from wrongdoing. Cooking purely “for one’s own sake” is the same self-enclosed action verse 9 said binds — the language of eating here is a concrete stand-in for the whole chapter’s abstract claim about attachment.