Verses Of Gita Chapter - 3🔗

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arjuna: Arjuna; uvāca: said; jyāyasī: speaking highly; cet: although; karmaṇas: action; te: your; matā: opinion; buddhir: knowledge; janārdana: Janardana; tat: therefore; kiṁ: why; karmaṇi: in action; ghore: terrible; māṁ: me; niyojayasi: engaging me; keśava: Keshava (slayer of the demon Keshi)

3.1 Arjuna said: O Janardana, O Kesava, Why do You make me engage in this terrible war if You think that knowledge is superior to action?

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vyāmiśreṇa: by ambiguous; iva: as; vākyena: words; buddhiṁ: intelligence; mohayasi: confusing; iva: as; me: my; tat: therefore; ekaṁ: one; vada: tell; niścitya: for certain; yena: by which; śreyaḥ: benefit; ahaṁ: I; āpnuyām: may have

3.2 My intelligence is confused by Your conflicting words. Tell me clearly what is best for me.

śrī bhagavān uvāca: the Lord said; loke: in the world; asmin: this; dvividhā: two kinds of; niṣṭhā: faith; purā: before; proktā: were said; mayā: by Me; anagha: O sinless one; jñānayogena: by the yoga of knowledge; sāṁkhyānāṁ: of the Sankhya; karmayogena: by the yoga of action; yoginām: of the yoga practitioners

3.3 The Lord said, ‘O sinless Arjuna, as I said before, in this world there are two paths; Self knowledge for the intellectual and the path of action of the knowing.

na: without; karmaṇām: of the actions; anārambhān: abstaining; naiṣkarmyaṁ: freedom from action; puruṣaḥ: man; aśnute: achieve; na: not; ca: also; saṁnyasanāt: by renunciation; eva: surely; siddhiṁ: success; samadhigacchati: attain

3.4 A person does not attain freedom from action by abstaining from work, nor does he attain fulfillment by giving up action.

na: not; hi: surely; kaścit: anyone; kṣaṇam: for a moment; api: also; jātu: even; tiṣṭhati: stands; akarmakṛt: without doing something; kāryate: forced to work; hi: surely; avaśaḥ: helplessly; karma: action; sarvaḥ: all; prakṛtijaiḥ: of the modes of material nature; guṇaiḥ: by the attributes

3.5 Surely, not even for a moment can anyone stand without doing something. He is always in action, despite himself, as this is his very nature.

karmendriyāṇi: the five working sense organs; saṁyamya: restraining; ya: who; āste: remains; manasā: mentally; smaran: recollecting; indriyārthān: objects of the senses; vimūḍhātmā: foolish; atma: soul; mithyācāraḥ: hypocrite; saḥ: he; ucyate: is called

3.6 He who restrains the sense organs, but who still thinks of the objects of the senses is deluded and is called a hypocrite.

yaḥ: who; tu: but; indriyāṇi: senses; manasā: by the mind; niyamya: controlling; ārabhate: begins; arjuna: O Arjuna; karmendriyaiḥ: by the active sense organs; karmayogam: work of devotion; asaktaḥ: without attachment; saḥ: he; viśiṣyate: superior

3.7 He who begins controlling the senses by the mind and performs selfless work through the sense organs is superior, O Arjuna.

niyataṁ: prescribed; kuru: do; karma: work; tvaṁ: you; karma: work; jyāyaḥ: better; hi: than; akarmaṇaḥ: without work; śarīra: body; yātrā: maintenance; api: even; ca: also; te: your; na: never; prasiddhyet: possible; akarmaṇaḥ: without work

3.8 Do your prescribed work, as doing work is better than being idle. Even your own body cannot be maintained without work.

yajñārthāt: sacrifice for; karmaṇaḥ: work done; anyatra: otherwise; lokaḥ: world; ayaṁ: this; karma bandhanaḥ: bondage by work; tad: Him; arthaṁ: for; karma: work; kaunteya: O son of Kunti; mukta: liberated; saṅgaḥ: attachment; samācara: do perfectly

3.9 Work has to be performed selflessly; otherwise, work binds one to this world. O son of Kunti, perform your work for Me and you will do it perfectly, liberated and without attachment.

sah: along with; ayajñāḥ: sacrifices; prajāḥ: people; sṛṣṭvā: creating; purā: before; uvāca: said; prajāpatiḥ: the lord of creation; anena: by this; prasaviṣyadhvaṁ: be more and more prosperous; eṣaḥ: certainly; vaḥ: your; astu: let it be; iṣṭa: desired; kāma dhuk: bestower of gifts

3.10 Brahma, the lord of creation before creating human kind as selfless sacrifice said, 'By this selfless service, be more and more prosperous and let it bestow all the desired gifts.'

XdmÝ^md`VnZZ V Xdm ^md`ÝV d:ß nañna ^md`ÝV: I`: na_dmßñ`W ß& 3.11

devān: celestial beings; bhāvayata: having pleased; anena: by this sacrifice; te: those; devāḥ: demigods; bhāvayantu: will please; vaḥ: you; parasparaṁ: mutual; bhāvayantaḥ: pleasing one another; śreyaḥ: prosperity; paraṁ: supreme; avāpsyatha: achieve

3.11 The celestial beings, being pleased by this sacrifice, will also nourish you; with this mutual nourishing of one another, you will achieve supreme prosperity.

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iṣṭān: desired; bhogān: necessities of life; hi: certainly; vaḥ: to you; devāḥ: demigods; dāsyante: award; yajña: sacrifice; bhāvitāḥ: satisfied; taiḥ: by them; dattān: things given; apradāya: without offering; ebhyaḥ: to the celestial beings; yaḥ: who; bhuṅkte: enjoys; stenaḥ: thief; eva: certainly; saḥ: he

3.12 Satisfied with the selfless service, the celestial beings certainly award you the desired necessities of life. He who enjoys the things given by them without offering to the celestial beings is certainly a thief.

yajñaśiṣṭāśinaḥ: sacrifice, food, eaters; santaḥ: devotees; mucyante: get relief from; sarva: all; kilbiṣaiḥ: sins; bhuñjate: enjoy; te: they; tu: but; aghaṁ: grievous; pāpāḥ: sins; ye: those; pacanti: prepare food; ātmakāraṇāt: for sense enjoyment

3.13 Those who eat food after selfless service are free of all sins. Those who prepare food for sense enjoyment do grievous sin.

annāt: from grains; bhavanti: grow; bhūtāni: beings; parjanyāt: from rains; anna: food grains; sambhavaḥ: possible; yajñāt: from sacrifice; bhavati: becomes possible; parjanyaḥ: rains; yajñaḥ: sacrifice; karma: work; samudbhavaḥ: born of

3.14 All beings grow from food grains, from rains the food grains become possible, the rains become possible from selfless sacrifice.

karma: work; brahmodbhavam: Creator born of; viddhi: know; brahma: Creator; akṣarasamudbhavam: Supreme born of; tasmāt: therefore; sarvagatam: all-pervading; brahma: Supreme; nityam: eternally; yajñe: in sacrifice; pratiṣṭhitam: situated

3.15 Know that work is born of the Creator and He is born of the Supreme. The all-pervading Supreme is eternally situated in sacrifice.

evam: prescribed; pravartitam: established; cakraṁ: cycle; na: not; anuvartayati: adopt; iha: in this; yaḥ: who; aghāyuḥ: life full of sins; indriyārāmaḥ: satisfied in sense gratification; moghaṁ: useless; pārtha: O son of Pritha; saḥ: he; jīvati: lives

3.16 O Partha, he who does not adopt the prescribed, established cycle lives a life full of sins. Rejoicing in sense gratification, he lives a useless life.

yaḥ: who; tu: but; ātmaratiḥ: takes pleasure; eva: certainly; syāt: remains; ātmatṛptaḥ: satisfied in self; ca: and; mānavaḥ: man; ātmani: in oneself; eva: certainly; ca: and; saṁtuṣṭaḥ: satiated; tasya: his; kāryaṁ: work; na: not; vidyate: exist

3.17 One who takes pleasure in the self, who is satisfied in the self and who is satiated in oneself, for him certainly, no work exists.

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na: never; eva: certainly; tasya: his; kṛtena: by doing duty; arthaḥ: purpose; na: not; akṛtena: without doing duty; iha: in this world; kaścana: whatever; na: never; ca: and; asya: of him; sarvabhūteṣu: all living beings; kaścit: any; artha: purpose; vyapāśrayaḥ: taking shelter of

3.18 Certainly, he never has any purpose for doing his duty or for not doing his duty in this world. He does not depend on any living being.

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tasmāt: therefore, asaktaḥ: without attachment, satataṁ: always, kāryaṁ: work, karma: work, samācara: perform, asaktaḥ: not attached, hi: certainly, ācaran: performing, karma: work, param: supreme, āpnoti: achieves, pūruṣaḥ: man

3.19 Therefore, one should work always without attachment. Performing work without attachment, certainly, man achieves the Supreme.

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karmaṇā: by work; eva: also; hi: certainly; saṁsiddhim: perfection; āsthitāḥ: situated; janakādayaḥ: Janaka other kings; lokasaṁgraham: educating people; eva: also; api: therefore; sampaśyan: considering; kartum: act; arhasi: deserve

3.20 King Janaka and others attained perfection by selfless service. To guide others you too must act selflessly.

yad-yat: what; ācarati: act; śreṣṭhaḥ: great; tat-tat: that; eva: certainly; itaraḥ: common; janaḥ: persons; saḥ: he; yat: what; pramāṇaṁ: evidence; kurute: perform; lokaḥ: world; tat: that; anuvartate: follow in footsteps

3.21 Whatever action is performed by a great person, others follow. They follow the example set by him.

na: not; me: mine; pārtha: O son of Pritha; asti: is; kartavyaṁ: duty; triṣu: in the three; lokeṣu: worlds; kiṁcana: anything; na: no; anavāptaṁ: in want; avāptavyaṁ: to be gained; varte: engaged; eva: certainly; ca: and; karmaṇi: work

3.22 O Partha, there is nothing that I must do in the three worlds. Neither am I in want of anything nor do I have anything to gain. Yet, I am always in action.

yadi: if; hi: certainly; aham: I; na: not; varteyam: engage; jātu: ever; karmaṇi: work; atandritaḥ: with care; mama: My; vartma: path; anuvartante: follow; manuṣyāḥ: persons; pārtha: Partha; sarvaśaḥ: in all respects

3.23 If I did not engage in work with care, O Partha, certainly, people would follow My path in all respects.

utsīdeyuḥ: ruin; ime: these; lokāḥ: worlds; na: not; kuryām: do; karma: work; cet: if; aham: I; saṁkarasya: confusion of species; ca: and; kartā: doer; syām: shall be; upahanyām: destroy; imāḥ: these; prajāḥ: beings

3.24 If I do not work, then these worlds would be ruined. I would be the cause of creating confusion and destruction.

saktāḥ: attached; karmaṇi: work; avidvāṁsaḥ: ignorant; yathā: as; kurvanti: do; bhārata: Bharata; kuryāt: do; vidvān: wise; tathā: and; asaktaḥ: without attachment; cikīrṣuḥ: desiring; lokasaṁgraham: leading people

3.25 As the ignorant do their work with attachment to the results, O Bharata, the wise do so without attachment, for the welfare of people.

na: not; buddhi: intelligence; bhedaṁ: disrupt; janayet: do; ajñānāṁ: ignorant; karma: work saṅgināṁ: attached; joṣayet: encouraged; sarva: all; karmāṇi: work; vidvān: wise; yuktaḥ: engaged; samācaran: practising

3.26 Let not the wise disturb the minds of the ignorant who are attached to the results of work. They should encourage them to act without attachment.

prakṛteḥ: of material nature; kriyamāṇāni: all being done; guṇaiḥ: by the attributes; karmāṇi: work; sarvaśaḥ: all kinds of; ahaṁkāra: ego; vimūḍhātmā: confused being; kartā: doer; ahaṁ: I; iti: thus; manyate: thinks

3.27 People, confused by ego, think they are the doers of all kinds of work while it is being done by the energy of nature.

tattvavit: one who knows the truth; tu: but; mahābāho: mighty-armed one; guṇa: attributes; karma: work; vibhāgayoḥ: differences; guṇāḥ: attributes; guṇeṣu: in sense gratification; vartante: engaged; iti: thus; matvā: thinking; na: never; sajjate: becomes attached

3.28 One who knows the Truth, O mighty-armed one, knows the differences between the attributes of nature and work. Knowing well about the attributes and sense gratification, he never becomes attached.

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prakṛteḥ: by the material nature; guṇa: attributes; saṁmūḍhāḥ: fooled; sajjante: become engaged; guṇa: attributes; karmasu: actions; tān: those; akṛtsnavidaḥ: persons with less wisdom; mandān: lazy; kṛtsnavit: who has wisdom; na: not; vicālayet: unsettle

3.29 Fooled by the attributes of nature, those people with less wisdom or who are lazy become engaged in actions driven by these attributes. But, the wise should not unsettle them.

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mayi: to Me; sarvāṇi: all kinds of; karmāṇi: work; saṁnyasya: renouncing; adhyātma: spiritual knowledge; cetasā: consciousness; nirāśīḥ: without desire for gain; nir mamaḥ: without sense of ownership; bhūtvā: being; yudhyasva: fight; vigatajvaraḥ: without being lazy

3.30 Dedicating the results of work to Me, with consciousness filled with spiritual knowledge, without desire for gain and without sense of ownership, without being lazy, do what you have to do.

ye: who; me: My; matam: teaching; idaṁ: these; nityaṁ: always; anutiṣṭhanti: execute regularly; mānavāḥ: persons; śraddhāvantaḥ: with faith; anasūyantaḥ: without envy; mucyante: become free; te: all of them; api: even; karmabhiḥ: from the bondage of fruitive actions

ye: those; tu: but; etat: this; abhyasūryantaḥ: out of envy; na: not; anutiṣṭhanti: regularly perform; me: My; mataṁ: teaching; sarvajñāna: all kinds of knowledge; vimūḍhān: fooled; tān: they; viddhi: know; naṣṭān: ruined; acetasaḥ: without Consciousness

sadṛśaṁ: according to; ceṣṭate: tries; svasyāḥ: by one's nature; prakṛteḥ: modes; jñānavān: wise; api: even; prakṛtiṁ: nature; yānti: goes through; bhūtāni: living beings; nigrahaḥ: suppression; kiṁ: what; kariṣyati: can do

3.33 Even the wise person tries to act according to the modes of his own nature, for all living beings go through their nature. What can restraint of the senses do?

indriyasya: of the senses; indriyasya arthe: for sense objects; rāga: attachment; dveṣau: repulsion; vyavasthitau: put under control; tayoḥ: of them; na: never; vaśaṁ: control; āgacchet: come; tau: those; hi: certainly; asya: his; paripanthinau: stumbling blocks

3.34 Attachment and repulsion of the senses for sense objects should be put under control. One should never come under their control as they certainly are the stumbling blocks on the path of self-realization.

śreyān: better; svadharmaḥ: own duty; viguṇaḥ: in a faulty manner; paradharmāt: other's duty; svanuṣṭhitāt: perfectly done; svadharme: in one's duty; nidhanaṁ: death; śreyaḥ: better; paradhamaḥ: other's duty; bhayāvahaḥ: dangerous

3.35 It is better to do one's own duty, even if it is in a faulty manner, than to do someone else's duty perfectly. Death in the course of performing one's own duty is better than doing another's duty, as this can be dangerous.

arjuna uvāca

arjuna uvāca: Arjuna said; atha: then; kena: by what; prayuktaḥ: forced; ayaṁ: one; pāpaṁ: sins; carati: acts; pūruṣaḥ: man; anicchan: without desiring; api: though; vārṣṇeya: O descendant of Vrishni; balāt: by force; iva: as if; niyojitaḥ: engaged

3.36 Arjuna said, ‘O descendant of Vrishni, then, by what is man forced to sinful acts, even without desiring, as if engaged by force?’

śrī bhagavān uvāca

śrī bhagavān uvāca: the Lord said; kāma: lust; eṣa: these; krodha: anger; eṣa: these; rajoguṇa: attribute of passion; samudbhavaḥ: born of; mahāśanaḥ: all-devouring; mahāpāpmā: greatly sinful; viddhi: know; enaṁ: this; iha: in the world; vairiṇam: greatest enemy

3.37 The Lord said, ‘It is lust and anger born of the attribute of passion, all-devouring and sinful, which is one’s greatest enemy in this world.’

dhūmena: by smoke; āvriyate: covered; vahniḥ: fire; yathā: as; ādarśaḥ: mirror; malena: by dust; ca: also; yathā: as; ulbena: by the womb; āvṛtaḥ: covered; garbhaḥ: embryo; tathā: so; tena: by that; idaṁ: this; āvṛtaṁ: covered

3.38 As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, so also, the living being is covered by lust.

āvṛtaṁ: covered; jñānam: knowledge; etena: by this; jñāninaḥ: of the knower; nitya: eternal; vairiṇā: enemy; kāma: lust; rū peṇa: in the form of; kaunteya: O son of Kunti; duṣpūreṇa: never satisfied; analena: by fire; ca: and

3.39 The knowledge of the knower is covered by this eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and burns like fire, O son of Kunti

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indriyāṇi: senses; manaḥ: mind; buddhiḥ: intelligence; asya: of; adhiṣṭhānaṁ: sitting place; ucyate: called; etaiḥ: by these; vimohayati: confuses; eṣaḥ: of this; jñānam: knowledge; āvṛtya: covering; dehinam: embodied being

3.40 The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the locations of this lust, which confuses the embodied being and covers the knowledge.

tasmāt: therefore; tvam: you; indriyāṇi: senses; ādau: in the beginning; niyamya: by controlling; bharata-ṛṣabha: O chief amongst the descendants of Bharata; pāpmānam: symbol of sin; prajahi: curb; hi: certainly; enam: this; jñāna: knowledge; vijñāna: consciousness; nāśanam: destroyer

beginning, control the senses and curb the symbol of sin, which is certainly the destroyer of knowledge and consciousness.

indriyāṇi: senses; parāṇi: superior; āhuḥ: is said; indriyebhyaḥ: more than the senses; param: superior; manaḥ: mind; manasaḥ: more than the mind; tu: also; parā: superior; buddhiḥ: intelligence; yaḥ: who; buddheḥ: more than intelligence; parataḥ: superior; tu: but; saḥ: he

the senses. The intelligence is still higher than the mind and the consciousness is even higher than intelligence.

evam: and; buddheḥ: of intelligence; param: superior; buddhvā: knowing; saṁstabhya: by steadying; ātmānaṁ: of the mind; ātmanā: by intelligence; jahi: conquer; śatruṁ: enemy; māhābāho: O mighty-armed one; kāma: lust; rūpaṁ: in the form of; durāsadaṁ: insatiable

3.43 Knowing the Self to be superior to mind and intelligence, by steadying the mind by intelligence, conquer the insatiable enemy in the form of lust, O mighty-armed one.

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In the Upaniṣad of the Bhagavad gita, the knowledge of Brahman, the Supreme, the science of Yoga and the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, this is the third discourse designated: