English Translation of Chapter 4 without Verses 
।4.1।   Shri Krishna Said - I imparted this timeless Yoga to Sun-Lord, He imparted to Manu, and Manu imparted it to Ikshvaku.

।4.2।   O Arjuna! This Yoga has been known to royal sages through succession, but knowledge of this Yoga has been lost due to long lapse of time.

।4.3।   You are my friend and devotee, therefore, I am imparting you, the same ancient Yoga, which is a profound mystery.

।4.4।   Arjuna Said - Your birth may be some years back but the birth of the Sun is too many years back. How I can understand that you imparted this Yoga to Sun-lord.

।4.5।   Sri Krishna said - O Arjuna, many births of Mine, as well as of yours have passed. I know all of them, but you do not know.

।4.6।   Though I am birthless and imperishable, and the God of all beings, (still) I take birth using my transcendental energy by presiding over my nature.

।4.7।   O Arjuna, whenever there is a decline in virtue and increase of vice, then I do manifest Myself.

।4.8।   For protection of the pious, the destruction of the wicked, and establishing virtue, I manifest Myself in every age.

।4.9।   O Arjuna, My birth and actions are transcendental, who knows this truth for sure, he is not born again. once he leaves the body, he comes to Me.

।4.10।   Many who are devoid of attachment, fear and anger, who are absorbed in Me and had taken refuge in Me, and are purified by the austerity and knowledge, have attained My state.

।4.11।   O Arjuna, people approach me in different ways with different feelings, I favor them and think of them in same manner, becasue all are following my path only in every way.

।4.12।   Longing for the fruition of actions, they worship the gods here. For, in the human world, success from action comes quickly.

।4.13।   The four castes have been created by Me through a classification of the qualities and duties. Even though I have done that, still know Me to be a non-agent (non-doer) and changeless.

।4.14।   There is no work that affects Me; nor do I aspire for the fruits of action.One who understands this truth about Me also does not become entangled in the fruits of work.

।4.15।   Action has been done in similar fashion by the seekers of salvation, Therefore, do your work in similar way, as done by your liberation-seeking elders.

।4.16।   What is action? What is non-action? Even the wise are puzzled in respect of these. I shall declare to you that kind of action by knowing which you will be freed from evil.

।4.17।   You should know, what is action, what is inaction and what is prohibited action. True nature of action is very deep to understand.

।4.18।   He who sees non-action in action and also action in non-action is wise among men. That Yogi is a performer of all actions.

।4.19।   He whose undertakings are all devoid of desires and (selfish) volitions and whose actions have been burnt by the fire of knowledge, the wise call him a sage.

।4.20।   Having abandoned attachment to the fruits of the action, ever content, depending on nothing; though engaged in activity, he does not do anything.

।4.21।   Without hope and with the mind and the self controlled, abandoning all sense of possession, doing mere bodily action, he incurs no sin.

।4.22।   Remaining contended with whatever comes on its own, transcending the dualities (pairs of opposites), entertaining no jealously, and remaning equal in success and failure, he does not get bound, even when he acts.

।4.23।   Who has got rid of attachment and is liberated, whose mind is always aware of supreme knowledge, Who works for the ultimate benefit of mankind, such person's actions are fully dissolved.

।4.24।   The tools used to do the work are also of supreme nature, materials used to to do the work are also of supreme nature, worker himself doing the work is also of supreme nature. The act of doing the work is also of supreme nature. The person who has become perfect in doing the works in the state of meditation with supreme knowledge, is also likely to receive the fruits of his action which are also of supreme nature.

।4.25।   Some do the offereing cermony to please the gods and others do the meditation-chanting as offering to the almighty (or consider their just and self-less tasks as offering to the almighty God).

।4.26।   Others offer as oblations of hearing and other senses in the fires of restraint. Some others offer as oblations the objects of the senses (as per the guidelines of great books and personalities), into the fires of their senses.

।4.27।   Others again sacrifice all the activities of the senses and those of the breath (vital energy) in the fire of the Yoga of self-restraint kindled by knowledge.

।4.28|   Others perform the sacrifice of material objects or austerities or Yoga; while others who can keep difficult vows, offer their scriptural study and knowledge as sacrifice.

|4.29।   Others absorbed in the breath-control offer the following action as sacrifice- the outgoing breath in the incoming, restraining the outgoing and incoming breaths, and then incoming in the outgoing.

।4.30।   Some who have regulated eating habits, offer the pranas (breaths) into pranas. All these persons know what are the actions to be done and have their sins destroyed by such actions.

।4.31।   O Arjuna! Those who eat the remnants of the sacrifice, which are like nectar, go to the eternal Brahman. This world is not for the man who does not perform sacrifice; how then can he have the other world.

।4.32।   Thus many forms of sacrifices have been given by the people of knowledge. Know all these born of actions and worthy to perform. Knowing thus, you shall be free.

।4.33।   O killer of foes, Arjuna! The offereing of knowledge is superior to materials sacrifice. All actions and everything else culminate in knowledge.

।4.34।   You should learn this from those, endowed with knowledge, by prostration, by inquiry and by offering service to them; those who are capable of showing the truth will give you the ultimate knowledge.

।4.35।   O Arjuna, Knowing that you will not fall again into delusion and you will see all beings in your-self and then in Me.

।4.36।   Even if you be the most sinful of all sinners, you will undoubtedly cross over all sins by the boat of knowledge alone.

।4.37।   O Arjuna, as a blazing fire reduces fuels to ashes, similarly the fire of Knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.

।4.38।   Indeed, there is nothing purifying here comparable to Knowledge. One who has become perfected through yoga, realizes that by himself in his own heart at right time.

।4.39।   The man who is full of faith, devoted, and subdued the senses obtains this knowledge; and having obtained the knowledge he attains at once to the supreme peace.

।4.40।   One who is ignorant and faithless, and has a doubting mind perishes. Neither this world nor the next nor happiness exists for one who has a doubting mind.

।4.41।   O Arjuna ! He who has renounced actions by Yoga, whose doubts have been absorbed by knowledge, and who is self-possessed - actions do not bind him.

।4.42।   O Arjuna ! The doubt has sprung from ignornace and exists in your heart, cut these by means of knowledge-sword, practise the Yoga and stand up.