Sanskrit
अनाश्रितः कर्मफलं कार्यं कर्म करोति यः । स संन्यासी च योगी च न निरग्निर्न चाक्रियः ॥
anāśritaḥ karmaphalaṃ kāryaṃ karma karoti yaḥ sa saṃnyāsī ca yogī ca na niragnir na cākriyaḥ
Translation
He that performeth such action as his duty, independently of the fruit of action, he is an ascetic, he is a Yogi, not he that is without fire, and without rites.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Chapter 6 opens with Krishna resuming the teaching, and immediately redefines two words Arjuna would have assumed were opposites: sannyasi (renunciate) and yogi. Both name the same person — not the literal ascetic who abandons ritual fire and formal rites, but anyone who acts without craving the fruit of the action. This directly restates 2.47’s core formula in different vocabulary, refusing to let “renunciation” mean mere withdrawal from doing.
Concepts