Sanskrit
काङ्क्षन्तः कर्मणां सिद्धिं यजन्त इह देवताः । क्षिप्रं हि मानुषे लोके सिद्धिर्भवति कर्मजा ॥
kāṅkṣantaḥ karmaṇāṃ siddhiṃ yajanta iha devatāḥ kṣipraṃ hi mānuṣe loke siddhir bhavati karmajā
Translation
They who long after success in action on earth worship the Shining Ones; for in brief space verily, in this world of men, success is born of action.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
A blunter, more transactional picture than verse 11’s universalism: those who want quick results turn to the gods because, in the human world, success from action does come fast. Krishna doesn’t condemn this outright — he notes it as a lower-order motivation, setting up the sharper distinction between action done for results and action done with knowledge that the chapter builds toward from verse 14 onward.