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Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 2 Text 51
karma-jam buddhi-yukta hi
phalam tyaktva manisinah
janma-bandha-vinirmuktah
padam gacchanty anamayam

karma-jam--due to fruitive activities; buddhi-yuktah--being engaged in devotional service; hi--certainly; phalam--results; tyaktva--giving up; manisinah--great sages or devotees; janma-bandha--from the bondage of birth and death; vinirmuktah--liberated; padam--position; gacchanti--they reach; anamayam--without miseries.

TRANSLATION

By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord, great sages or devotees free themselves from the results of work in the material world. In this way they become free from the cycle of birth and death and attain the state beyond all miseries [by going back to Godhead].