BG 18.17

यस्य नाहङ्कृतो भावो बुद्धिर्यस्य न लिप्यते ।
हत्वापि स इमाँल्लोकान्न हन्ति न निबध्यते ॥
yasya nāhaṅkṛto bhāvo buddhir yasya na lipyate
hatvāpi sa imāṁl lokān na hanti na nibadhyate

Word-for-word meanings

yasya — one to whom;  ahaṅkṛtaḥ bhāvaḥ — the notion of being the doer;  na — does not exist;  yasya — [and] whose;  buddhiḥ — intellect;  na lipyate — is not tainted [by attachment];  saḥ — he;  hatvā api — even on slaughtering;  imān — [all] these;  lokān — people;  na hanti — does not in fact kill;  na nibadhyate — nor is he bound [by the results of his actions].

Translation

A person who has no notion of being the doer, and whose intellect is not tainted [by attachment], even on slaughtering all these people, does not in fact kill nor is he bound by the results of his actions.

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