Sanskrit
योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणं ज्ञानसञ्छिन्नसंशयम् । आत्मवन्तं न कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय ॥
yoga-sannyasta-karmāṇaṃ jñāna-sañchinna-saṃśayam ātmavantaṃ na karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanañjaya
Translation
He who hath renounced actions by yoga, who hath cloven asunder doubt by wisdom, who is ruled by the Self, actions do not bind him, O Dhananjaya.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The fusion the whole chapter has been assembling: one who has renounced action through yoga and severed doubt through knowledge — yoga-sannyasta-karmāṇam, jñāna-sañchinna-saṃśayam — is not bound by action at all. This is Chapter 3’s karma-yoga, action without attachment to its fruit, and Chapter 4’s jñāna, knowledge that dissolves doubt, named side by side in a single compound sentence, which is as close as the Gita gets to stating outright that its two apparently competing paths were never actually separate paths.
Concepts