। । ॥ १८६ ॥
In plain words
In just the same way, jñāna and karma cannot keep company. What help could action possibly give to knowledge, when action is knowledge's own opposite number? Let knowledge be merely present, and action does not so much as flicker into being.
Close to the Sanskrit
In just the same way, a joint combination of knowledge and action does not hold. What service could action render to knowledge, whose own antagonist is action — knowledge by the mere presence of which action itself does not attain any manifestation?