That doer of the yoga of action is to be known as a constant renouncer who neither hates anything nor longs for anything, who is even toward pain and pleasure and their causes. One who, though engaged in action, is of this kind is to be known as a constant renouncer. For he who is free of the pairs of opposites, O mighty-armed one, is released from bondage easily, without strain. It might be supposed that, since renunciation and the yoga of action are carried out by different persons and are mutually opposed, their fruits too must differ, and that it cannot be that both bring about the highest good. To meet this, the following is said.

The man of the discipline of action, content with the experience of the self that is included within it, craves nothing else; for that very reason he hates nothing; and for that very reason he bears the pairs of opposites. He is to be known as a perpetual renouncer, perpetually settled in knowledge. For, settled in the discipline of action which is easy to do, he is happily freed from bondage. The Lord states that the discipline of knowledge and the discipline of action, as means to the attaining of the self, are independent of one another.

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

Krishna states the meaning of the word 'renunciation', with 'he is to be known as a perpetual renouncer'. To make known that renunciation brings the highest good, He recalls the meaning of that word, with 'he is to be known'.