राम
V.4518.4418.46

Chapter 18 · Verse 45·Spoken by Krishna

स्वे स्वे कर्मण्यभिरतः संसिद्धिं लभते नरः।स्वकर्मनिरतः सिद्धिं यथा विन्दति तच्छृणु

sve sve karmaṇy abhirataḥ sansiddhiṁ labhate naraḥ sva-karma-nirataḥ siddhiṁ yathā vindati tach chhṛiṇu

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Sanskrit recitation by Swami Brahmānanda

Audio from the Gītā Supersite, IIT Kanpur

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sve sverespectivelykarmaṇiworkabhirataḥfulfillingsansiddhimperfectionlabhateachievenaraḥa personsva-karmato one’s own prescribed dutynirataḥengagedsiddhimperfectionyathāasvindatiattainstatthatśhṛiṇuhear

Reading set · 5 translations · 3 commentaries

Translation · 5 voices

Being devoted to his own duty, one attains complete success. Hear how one devoted to their own duty achieves success.

Swami Gambiranandaafter Śaṅkara's bhāṣya· paired with Śaṅkara

Devoting oneself to one's duty, one attains perfection. Hear now how one devoted to their own duty attains perfection.

Swami Adidevanandaafter Rāmānuja's bhāṣya· paired with Rāmānuja

A person, devoted to their own respective action, attains success. How one attains success through devotion to their own action, that you must hear from Me.

Dr. S. Sankaranarayanafter Madhva's bhāṣya· paired with Madhva

Each person devoted to their own duty attains perfection. How they attain perfection while being engaged in their own duty, hear now.

Swami SivanandaThe Bhagavad Gita

Perfection is attained when one diligently attends to their duty. Listen, and I will tell you how it is attained by one who always minds their own duty.

Shri Purohit SwamiThe Geeta

ŚaṅkarācāryaGītā-bhāṣya
Advaita Vedānta· Classical
Machine translation · draft

A man, the one who is qualified, devoted to his own action, intent on it, in the action whose marks have been distinguished, attains consummation; that is, when, by the performance of his own action, his impurity is destroyed, he attains the consummation that is the fitness of body and senses for the standing in knowledge. Does consummation come directly from the mere performance of one's own action? No. Then how does the man devoted to his own action gain consummation? Hear in what way.

Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.

RāmānujācāryaGītā-bhāṣya
Viśiṣṭādvaita· Classical
Machine translation · draft

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

A man devoted to his own action, told for each, gains consummation, the attaining of the supreme abode. Hear how, in what way, the man devoted to his own action finds consummation, attains the supreme abode.

Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.

MadhvācāryaGītā-bhāṣya
Dvaita· Classical
Machine translation · draft

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.

Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.