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na buddhi-bhedam´ janayed ajñanam´ karma-sanginam jos?ayet sarva-karman?i vidvan yuktah? samacaran Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.26 So as not to disrupt the minds of ignorant men attached to the fruitive results of prescribed...

prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ahańkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.27 Te spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that...

tattva-vit tu mahā-bāho guṇa-karma-vibhāgayoḥ guṇā guṇeṣu vartanta iti matvā na sajjate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.28 One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the senses...

prakṛter guṇa-sammūḍhāḥ sajjante guṇa-karmasu tān akṛtsna-vido mandān kṛtsna-vin na vicālayet Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.29 Bewildered by the modes of material nature, the ignorant fully engage themselves in material...

mayi sarvan?i karman?i sannyasyadhyatma-cetasa nirasir nirmamo bhutva yudhyasva vigata-jvarah? Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.30 Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with full knowledge of Me, without...

ye me matam idaḿ nityam anutiṣṭhanti mānavāḥ śraddhāvanto ‘nasūyanto mucyante te ‘pi karmabhiḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.31 Those persons who execute their duties according to My injunctions and who follow...

ye tv etad abhyasūyanto nānutiṣṭhanti me matam sarva-jñāna-vimūḍhāḿs tān viddhi naṣṭān acetasaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.32 But those who, out of envy, disregard these teachings and do not follow them are to be...

sadṛśaḿ ceṣṭate svasyāḥ prakṛter jñānavān api prakṛtiḿ yānti bhūtāni nigrahaḥ kiḿ kariṣyati Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.33 Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature...

indriyasyendriyasyārthe rāga-dveṣau vyavasthitau tayor na vaśam āgacchet tau hy asya paripanthinau Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.34 There are principles to regulate attachment and aversion pertaining to the senses and their...

śreyān sva-dharmo viguṇaḥ para-dharmāt sv-anuṣṭhitāt sva-dharme nidhanaḿ śreyaḥ para-dharmo bhayāvahaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 3.35 It is far better to discharge one’s prescribed duties, even though faultily, than...