Bhagavad Gita 2.51

[Paramananda das]

TEXT 51

karma-jam buddhi-yukta hi phalam tyaktva  manisinah janma-bandha-vinirmuktah padam gacchanty  anamayam

SYNONYMS

karma-jam--because of  fruitive activities; buddhi-yuktah--being done in devotional service; hi--certainly; phalam--results; tyaktva--giving up; manisinah--devotees who are great sages; janma-bandha--the bondage  of birth and death; vinirmuktah--liberated soul; padam--position; gacchanti--reached; anamayam--without miseries.

TRANSLATION

The wise, engaged in  devotional service, take refuge in the Lord, and free themselves from the cycle  of birth and death by renouncing the fruits of action in the material world. In  this way they can attain that state beyond all miseries.

PURPORT

The liberated living entities seek that  place where there are no material miseries. The Bhagavatam says:

samasrita ye padapallava-plavam mahat-padam  punya-yaso murareh bhavambudhir vatsa-padam param padam padam padam yad vipadam na tesam (Bhag. 10.14.58)

"For  one who has accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter  of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Mukunda or the giver of mukti, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in a  calf's hoofprint. Param padam, or the place where there are no material  miseries, or Vaikuntha, is his goal, not the place where there is danger in  every step of life." Owing to ignorance, one does not know that this material world is a  miserable place where there are dangers at every step. Out of ignorance only,  less intelligent persons try to adjust to the situation by fruitive activities,  thinking that the resultant actions will make them happy. They do not know that  no kind of material body anywhere within the universe can give life without  miseries. The miseries of life, namely birth, death, old age and diseases, are  present everywhere within the material world. But one who understands his real  constitutional position as the eternal servitor of the Lord, and thus knows the  position of the Personality of Godhead, engages himself in the transcendental  loving service of the Lord. Consequently he becomes qualified to enter into the  Vaikuntha planets, where there is neither material, miserable life nor the  influence of time and death. To know one's constitutional position means to know  also the sublime position of the Lord. One who wrongly thinks that the living  entity's position and the Lord's position are on the same level is to be  understood to be in darkness and therefore unable to engage himself in the  devotional service of the Lord. He becomes a lord himself and thus paves the way  for the repetition of birth and death. But one who, understanding that his  position is to serve, transfers himself to the service of the Lord, at once  becomes eligible for Vaikunthaloka. Service for the cause of the Lord is called karma-yoga or buddhi-yoga, or in plain words, devotional service  to the Lord.

now the Jayadvaita Swami edition:

karma-jaḿ buddhi-yuktā hi

phalaḿ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ

janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ

padaḿ gacchanty anāmayam

SYNONYMS

karma-jam — due to fruitive activities; buddhi-yuktāḥ — being engaged in devotional service; hi — certainly; phalam — results; tyaktvā — giving up; manīṣiṇaḥ — great sages or devotees; janma-bandha — from the bondage of birth and death; vinirmuktāḥ — liberated; padam — position; gacchanti — they reach; anāmayam — without miseries.

TRANSLATION

By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord, great sages or devotees free themselves from the results of work in the material world. In this way they become free from the cycle of birth and death and attain the state beyond all miseries [by going back to Godhead].

PURPORT

The liberated living entities belong to that place where there are no material miseries. The Bhāgavatam (10.14.58) says:

samāṣritā ye pada-pallava-plavaḿ

mahat-padaḿ puṇya-yaśo murāreḥ

bhavāmbudhir vatsa-padaḿ paraḿ padaḿ

padaḿ padaḿ yad vipadāḿ na teṣām

"For one who has accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Mukunda, or the giver of mukti, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in a calf's footprint. paraḿ padam, or the place where there are no material miseries, or Vaikuṇṭha, is his goal, not the place where there is danger in every step of life."

Owing to ignorance, one does not know that this material world is a miserable place where there are dangers at every step. Out of ignorance only, less intelligent persons try to adjust to the situation by fruitive activities, thinking that the resultant actions will make them happy. They do not know that no kind of material body anywhere within the universe can give life without miseries. The miseries of life, namely birth, death, old age and diseases, are present everywhere within the material world. But one who understands his real constitutional position as the eternal servitor of the Lord, and thus knows the position of the Personality of Godhead, engages himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. Consequently he becomes qualified to enter into the Vaikuṇṭha planets, where there is neither material, miserable life nor the influence of time and death. To know one's constitutional position means to know also the sublime position of the Lord. One who wrongly thinks that the living entity's position and the Lord's position are on the same level is to be understood to be in darkness and therefore unable to engage himself in the devotional service of the Lord. He becomes a lord himself and thus paves the way for the repetition of birth and death. But one who, understanding that his position is to serve, transfers himself to the service of the Lord, at once becomes eligible for Vaikuṇṭhaloka. Service for the cause of the Lord is called karma-yoga or buddhi-yoga, or in plain words, devotional service to the Lord.

The purport is the same but the  translation of the sloka given by Srila Prabhupada and Jayadvaita Swami is not the same:

The wise, engaged in devotional service, take refuge in the Lord, and free  themselves from the cycle of birth and death by renouncing the fruits of action  in the material world. In this way they can attain that state beyond all  miseries.

Jayadvaita Swami has changed the translation:

By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord, great sages or devotees free themselves from the results of work in the material world. In this way they become free from the cycle of birth and death and attain the state beyond all miseries [by going back to Godhead].

It is not that there is a secret hidden manuscript that only Jayadvaita Swami knows as he has hinted too in the past .However is there some hint in this sloka about going back to Godhead as interpolated by Jayadvaita Swami,for sure but that is obvious in Srila Prabhupadas vers, there was no need to change the translation.

So Srila Prabhupada and Hayagriva worked together on editing the Bhagavad-gita daily during the almost three months while Hayagriva Prabhu was living with him in the San Francisco temple, from Janurary 17, 1967 until April 9, 1967,so Srila Prabhupada did not leave anything to be changed ...

The good news is there is no changes to the Srimad Bhagavatam as far as I know.They are all pre 1977

Srila Visvanath Chakravati Thakura did not comment on this sloka:

Rudra Vaisnava Sampradaya: Visnuswami Sridhara Swami's Commentary How actions are able to turn out to be the means of liberation are being now  given. Those with spiritual intelligence who relinquish all fruitive desires for  the results of all actions, perform in righteousness activities as an offering  unto the Supreme Lord are blessed with self-realisation, and being released from  the bondage of birth and death they being liberated attain the eternal and  everlasting spiritual worlds of the Supreme Lord Krishna.

Brahma Vaisnava Sampradaya: Madhvacarya Madhvacarya's Commentary Lord Krishna instructs the solution in this verse. That is to perform all  actions free from fruitive craving. Offer all actions to the Supreme Lord  without desiring rewards. Endowed with spiritual intelligence and comprehension  of reality one attains the supreme stage. To get there the performance of  actions with equanimity is the way to wisdom and is the means for assured  liberation.

Sri Vaisnava Sampradaya: Ramanuja Ramanuja's Commentary Those who are factually situated in spiritual intelligence perform activities  as a matter of duty free from conceptions of gain and loss, unconcerned about  the resultant rewards. They are assuredly delivered from the bondage of birth  and death in the material existence and are liberated to the spiritual realms.  This information is well documented in the Vedic scriptures.

Kumara Vaisnava Sampradaya: Nimbaditya Kesava Kasmiri's Commentary An objection might be made that although it is definitely beneficial to avoid  evil activities; but why should one abandon good actions. Lord Krishna responds  that the wise who consider the true nature of things and have contemplated the  cause of birth and death realised that while evil deeds give rise to horrible  reactions also reactions to good deeds propels one to be born in noble and  wealthy families while still remaining in the material existence are still  subject to pleasure and pain and subject to old age, disease and death and thus  should also be avoided. Liberation from the material existence is the direction  to strive for and attaining the blissful state of the spiritual worlds described  in the Upanisads as Vaikuntha which free from all misery and is eternally beyond  the illusion of maya which is a product of the material nature. The conclusion  is that in order to attain the unlimited bliss of boundless joy in the spiritual  worlds one must abandon meritorious deeds also or else they will bestow trivial  material rewards.