Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 5, Verse 4

Children, not the wise, speak of knowledge and performance of action, as distinct. He who truly lives in one, gains the fruits of both.

These two paths were never actually opposites, they just look different from the outside.

This closes the loop on Arjuna's original question. The real destination is the same either way, so the apparent conflict between the two approaches was more about surface appearance than any genuine contradiction underneath.