Verse 50:
"buddhi-yukto jahatiha
ubhe sukrta-duskrte
tasmad yogaya yujyasva
yogah karmasu kausalam
"
(50) A man with evenness of mind discards both good and evil. Therefore strive for Yoga. Yoga is skill in action.
Explanation: A person with an evenness of mind in the performance of actions, relinquishes both good and bad Karma. These good and evil karma which have accumulated over time immemorial cause endless bondage and rebirth.
Yoga is skill in action. Therefore strive for yoga, O Arjuna, which is the art of all work.
Verse 51:
"karma-jam buddhi-yukta hi
phalam tyaktva manisinah
janma-bandha-vinirmuktah
padam gacchanty anamayam
"
(51)
The wise who possess evenness of mind, relinquishing the fruits born of action, are freed from the bondage of rebirth, and go to the region beyond all ills.
Explanation: Those who possess this eveness of mind while performing actions and relinquish their fruits are free from accumulated Karmas.
They are freed from the bondage of rebirth.
Verse 52:
"yada te moha-kalilam
buddhir vyatitarisyati
tada gantasi nirvedam
srotavyasya srutasya ca
"
(52)When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusion, you shall become indifferent to all that has been heard and all that is to be heard.
Explanation:
When duty is performed with an evenness of mind, the human intellect passes beyond the tangle of delusion.
The dense impurity of sin is the nature of this delusion which causes attachment to infinitesimal results of which you have heard so much and will hear later on. Soon you will feel disgusted regarding what you shall hear and what you have already heard.
Human intellect raises above delusion and is freed from bondage when one does not expect the fruits of one's action.
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