Laying his actions in Brahman, the Lord, depositing them there, acting with the thought 'I do this for His sake', as a servant acts for his master, and casting off attachment even to the fruit, even to liberation: he who does all actions so is not stained, is not bound, by sin, as a lotus leaf is not wetted by water. For him the fruit of that action is only the mere purification of being. Since.

By the word 'Brahman' here matter is meant, for it will be said, 'My womb is the great Brahman'. The senses are particular transformations of matter; in matter, abiding in the form of the senses, having placed his actions in the manner described in 'seeing, hearing' and the rest, and having given up attachment to fruit, the man who does actions with the thought 'I do nothing at all', though he goes about joined with matter, is not stained by sin, which is the cause of bondage in the form of the conceit that matter is the self, as the lotus leaf is not stained by water; that is, as the lotus leaf, though it is in contact with water, is not stained, so he is not stained.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

And it is only one joined with the yoga of renunciation that is not stained by action, Krishna says with 'in Brahman'. The fruit is told again and again in order to rule out taking the rule about the means in a merely figurative sense.