Shankaracharya's commentary, trans. Alladi Mahadeva Sastry (1897)
[1]For him no purpose of any sort is gained by what is done, nor any by what is left undone; nor has he any dependence on all beings for any purpose.
BG 3.18
नैव तस्य कृतेनार्थो नाकृतेनेह कश्चन । न चास्य सर्वभूतेषु कश्चिदर्थव्यपाश्रयः ॥
naiva tasya kṛtenārtho nākṛteneha kaścana | na cāsya sarva-bhūteṣu kaścid artha-vyapāśrayaḥ ||
"For the fully realized: neither action nor inaction gains or loses anything. They depend on no being for any purpose."
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Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]For him there is no object to attain by the things done, nor any by the things left undone here; nor has he any dependence on any being for any purpose.
William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]He has nothing to gain by performing or refraining from action; and for no object, however small, need he depend upon any being.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]No hope of gain is his who does or leaves undone; No weal of all living things is his woe. He needs nor those, nor these.
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]For him there is no purpose to be served, either by doing or not doing anything in this world; nor does he depend upon any creature for any object.