Chapter IV · Śloka 41
योगसंन्यस्तकर्माणं ज्ञानसञ्छिन्नसंशयम् |
आत्मवन्तं न कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय ||
आत्मवन्तं न कर्माणि निबध्नन्ति धनञ्जय ||
yoga-sannyasta-karmāṇaṃ jñāna-sañchinna-saṃśayam |
ātmavantaṃ na karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanañjaya ||
ātmavantaṃ na karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanañjaya ||
One who has renounced action through yoga, whose doubts are severed by knowledge, and who is self-possessed — actions do not bind that person, O Dhanañjaya.
The three qualifications — renunciation through yoga, severance of doubt through knowledge, and being established in the self — together describe complete inner freedom. In such a person, action flows without accumulating karmic weight.