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Bhagavad Gita

A dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna on action, knowledge, devotion, discipline, and liberation.

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The Bhagavad Gita appears within the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata. Its teaching begins when Arjuna faces a crisis of duty and asks Krishna for guidance.

A teaching through dialogue

Krishna responds through a progressive conversation rather than a single doctrine. The text brings disciplined action, contemplative knowledge, meditation, and devotion into relation.

  • Act with attention while releasing possessiveness over results.
  • Examine the nature of self, duty, and change.
  • Steady the mind through practice and discernment.
  • Offer action through devotion rather than egoistic ownership.
Bhagavad Gita 2.47
Source text

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन । मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥

Transliteration

karmaṇy evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana | mā karmaphalahetur bhūr mā te saṅgo ’stv akarmaṇi ||

Translation

You have a right to action alone, never to its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.

English translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896.
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