साङ्ख्ययोगौ पृथग्बालाः प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिताः | एकमप्यास्थितः सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम् ||५-४||
sāṅkhyayogau pṛthagbālāḥ pravadanti na paṇḍitāḥ . ekamapyāsthitaḥ samyagubhayorvindate phalam ||5-4||
Chapter 5 · Verse 4
Karma Sannyasa Yoga
कर्मसंन्यासयोग
In plain words
Children the ignorant people who have no knowledge of the Self and who have only a theoretical knowledge of the scriptures. Children or ignorant people only say that knowledge and the performance of action are different and produce distinct and opposite results. But the wise who have the knowledge of the Self say that they produce the same result only viz..
Translation
5.4 Children, not the learned, speak of Sankhya (Jnana Yoga) and Yoga (Karma Yoga) as distinct; he who is firmly set in one, attans the fruit of both.
Meaning
Children the ignorant people who have no knowledge of the Self and who have only a theoretical knowledge of the scriptures. Children or ignorant people only say that knowledge and the performance of action are different and produce distinct and opposite results. But the wise who have the knowledge of the Self say that they produce the same result only viz.. Moksha or liberation. He who is duly established in,one he who truly lives in one. Sankhya or Yoga obtains the fruits of both. Therefore there is no diversity in the result or the fruit. This is the gist of this verse. (Cf. VI.2)
Word by word
सांख्ययोगौ Sankhya (knowledge) and Yoga (Yoga of action or performance of action) पृथक् distinct बालाः children प्रवदन्ति speak न not पण्डिताः the wise एकम् one अपि even आस्थितः established in सम्यक् truly उभयोः of both विन्दते obtains फलम् fruit.