18.15 शरीरवाङ्मनोभिर्यत्कर्म प्रारभते नरः।न्याय्यं वा विपरीतं वा पञ्चैते तस्य हेतवः
śarīra
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śharīra-vāk-manobhiḥ—with body, speech, or mind;yat—which;karma—action;prārabhate—performs;naraḥ—a person;nyāyyam—proper;vā—or;viparītam—improper;vā—or;pañcha—five;ete—these;tasya—their;hetavaḥ—factors
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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O Arjuna! Whatever action is undertaken with the body, speech, or mind, whether it is lawful or otherwise, its factors are these five.
Whatever action a man performs, whether by muscular effort or by speech or by thought, and whether it be right or wrong, these five are the essential causes.
For whatever action a man undertakes by his body, speech and mind, whether right or wrong, i.e., enjoined or forbidden by the Sastras, the following five are its causes:
Whatever action a man performs with the body, speech and mind, be it just or its reverse, of it these five are the causes.
Whatever action a man performs by his body, speech and mind, whether right or the reverse, these five are its causes.
18.17 यस्य नाहंकृतो भावो बुद्धिर्यस्य न लिप्यते।हत्वापि स इमाँल्लोकान्न हन्ति न निबध्यते
yasya n
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yasya—whose;na ahankṛitaḥ—free from the ego of being the doer;bhāvaḥ—nature;buddhiḥ—intellect;yasya—whose;na lipyate—unattached;hatvā—slay;api—even;saḥ—they;imān—this;lokān—living beings;na—neither;hanti—kill;na—nor;nibadhyate—get bound
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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He whose mental disposition is not dominated by the sense of 'I', and whose intellect is not stained—he, even if he slays these worlds, does not [really] slay any and is not fettered.
He who has no pride, and whose intellect is unalloyed by attachment, even though he kill these people, yet he does not kill them, and his act does not bind him.
He who is free from the notion 'I am the doer,' and whose understanding is not tainted - slays not, though he slays all these men, nor is he bound.
He who has not the feeling of egoism, whose intellect is not tainted, he does not kill, nor does he become bound-even by killing these creatures!
He who is ever free from the egoistic notion, whose intelligence is not tainted by (good or evil), though he slays these people, he slayeth not, nor is he bound (by the action).
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मोक्षसंन्यासयोग
Chapter 18: Free Yourself Through Renunciation
mokṣasaṃnyāsayoga
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18.16 तत्रैवं सति कर्तारमात्मानं केवलं तु यः।पश्यत्यकृतबुद्धित्वान्न स पश्यति दुर्मतिः
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Word meanings
tatra—there;evam sati—in spite of this;kartāram—the doer;ātmānam—the soul;kevalam—only;tu—but;yaḥ—who;paśhyati—see;akṛita-buddhitvāt—with impure intellect;na—not;saḥ—they;paśhyati—see;durmatiḥ—foolish
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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But this being the case, whoever views himself as the sole agent due to their imperfect intellect—they, the defective-minded ones, do not view things rightly.
But the fool who supposes, because of his immature judgment, that it is his own Self alone that acts, he perverts the truth and does not see rightly.
Such being the case, he who sees only the self as the agent on account of the uncultivated understanding - he, of wicked mind, does not see at all.
This being the case, anyone, who, owing to the imperfection of his intellect, perceives the absolute Self as the agent, that man does not perceive (properly), and has a perverted intellect.
Now, such being the case, he who, owing to untrained understanding, looks upon his Self, which is isolated, as the agent, he of perverted intelligence, sees not.
