Sanskrit · Devanagari
न मां कर्माणि लिम्पन्ति न मे कर्मफले स्पृहा। इति मां योऽभिजानाति कर्मभिर्न स बध्यते ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
na māṃ karmāṇi limpanti na me karmaphale spṛhā iti māṃ yo.abhijānāti karmabhirna sa badhyate
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Actions defile me not. I have no attachment to the fruit of actions. He who knows me thus is not tied down by actions.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।4.14।। न मां तानि कर्माणि लिम्पन्ति देहाद्यारम्भकत्वेन अहंकाराभावात्। न च तेषां कर्मणां फलेषु मे मम स्पृहा तृष्णा। येषां तु संसारिणाम् अहं कर्ता इत्यभिमानः कर्मसु स्पृहा तत्फलेषु च तान् कर्माणि लिम्पन्ति इति युक्तम् तदभावात् न मां कर्माणि लिम्पन्ति। इति एवं यः अन्योऽपि माम् आत्मत्वेन अभिजानाति नाहं कर्ता न मे कर्मफले स्पृहा इति सः कर्मभिः न बध्यते तस्यापि न देहाद्यारम्भकाणि कर्माणि भवन्ति इत्यर्थः।।नाहं कर्ता न मे कर्मफले स्पृहा इति
ced8fe0a6c79…Rāmānuja
4.14 These actions of varied nature like creation etc., do not contaminate Me i.e., do not bind Me. For the distinctions of gods, men etc., are not brought about by Me, but by the particular Karmas, good and evil, of created beings. Therefore by the process of discriminating between the acired and the inherent, it will be found that I am not the author of this varied creations etc. The created or embodied selves, who are endowed with bodies and organs at the time of creation in accordance with their own Karmas springing from attachment to fruits etc., experience all enjoyments available in creation. Thus for them (embodied selves) alone there is desire for the results of creation etc., and for the results of their Karmas. There is no desire in Me for it. The Sutrakara says to the same effect: 'No partiality or cruelty on account of there being dependence (on the Karma of souls for inealities' (Br. S., 2.1.34). Bhagavan Parasara also says so: 'He (the Lord) is only the operative cause in the creation of beings. That from which the creative forces spring constitutes the material cause. Leaving aside the material cause, the being that becomes embodied does not reire the help of any other thing whatever. A thing is led into the condition in which it is, O best of ascetics, only by its own potentiality' (V. P., 1.4.51-2). The Supreme Person is only the operative cause with regard to the creation of those to be created, i.e., the selves in the bodies of gods etc. The material cause for the differences into gods etc., is the potentiality in the form of previous Karmas of the selves to be created. Therefore, leaving aside the operative cause, i.e., the Supreme Person, the creator, the embodied beings do not reire anything else for causing difference into conditions of gods etc. For these selves are led to take the forms of gods etc., by the potentiality of their own old Karma with which they are connected. Such is the meaning. He who knows Me thus to be the agent of creation etc., and still a non-agent, i.e., as one who has no desire for the results of the acts of creation etc., - such a person is not tied by previous actions, i.e., he is freed from the old Karmas which obstruct the undertaking of Karma Yoga by causing attachment to results. Such is the purport.
5da34f1b28e0…Swami Sivananda
4.14 न not? माम् Me? कर्माणि actions? लिम्पन्ति taint? न not? मे to Me? कर्मफले in the fruit of actions? स्पृहा desire? इति thus? माम् Me? यः who? अभिजानाति knows? कर्मभिः by actions? न not? सः he? बध्यते is bound.Commentary As I have neither egoism nor desire for fruits? I am not bound by actions. Wordly people think they are the agents and they perfrom actions. They also expect fruits for their actions. So they take birth again and again. If one works without attachment? without egoism? without expectation of fruits? he too will not be bound by actions. He will be freed from birth and death. (Cf.IX.9).
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