Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 Verse 13
भगवद् गीता अध्याय 3 श्लोक 13

यज्ञशिष्टाशिनः सन्तो मुच्यन्ते सर्वकिल्बिषैः।
भुञ्जते ते त्वघं पापा ये पचन्त्यात्मकारणात्।।3.13।।



English Translation - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
3.13. The righteous persons,  who eat the remnants (objects enjoined) of the actions to be performed necessarily,  are freed from all sins.  But those who cook, intending their own selves,  are sinners and eat sin.


English Translation of Commentary  - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
3.13 Yajnasista-etc.  Those who enjoy the pleasures of obects that have come to them on the authority of laws enjoining what is to be necessarily performed; and who enjoy them viewing  [the enjoyment]  only as a secondary (or intermediate) action and conseently as a subsidiary having no separate purpose;  and again those who enjoy the remnant of the necessary action  in the form of gratifying the group of the devas of the snese-organs-that residue of  food marked with bliss in being firmly established in their own Self - that is to say,  those who have mounted upon the Self and are desirous of enjoying objects only as a means to achieve this end - they are freed from all  faults of good and bad.  Those, who for their own selves etc. :  On the other hand, those who believe, under the  influence of ignorance, the sheer superficial enjoyment of objects as their final goal, and act with the notion  We perform this  [act] for the sake of ourselves - those persons alone gain the sin in the form of good and bad.


Transliteration Bhagavad Gita 3.13Yajnashishtaashinah santo muchyante sarva kilbishaih;
Bhunjate te twagham paapaa ye pachantyaatma kaaranaat.


Word Meanings Bhagavad Gita 3.13yajña-śhiṣhṭa—of remnants of food offered in sacrifice; aśhinaḥ—eaters; santaḥ—saintly persons; muchyante—are released; sarva—all kinds of; kilbiṣhaiḥ—from sins; bhuñjate—enjoy; te—they; tu—but; agham—sins; pāpāḥ—sinners; ye—who; pachanti—cook (food); ātma-kāraṇāt—for their own sake