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Bhagavad Gita 18.9

Chapter 18: Moksha Sanyasa Yoga (Liberation Through Renunciation) · मोक्षसंन्यासयोग

कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन ।सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः ॥

kāryamityeva yatkarma niyataṃ kriyate'rjuna |saṅgaṃ tyaktvā phalaṃ caiva sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ ||

Meaning of Gita 18.9 in English

When a person does their duty simply because it should be done, letting go of attachment and of the desire for results, that is sattvic renunciation — the purest kind.

गीता 18.9 का हिंदी अर्थ

जब कोई अपना कर्तव्य केवल इसलिए करता है कि यह करना उचित है, और आसक्ति व फल की इच्छा छोड़ देता है, तो वह सात्त्विक त्याग है।

doing your own dutydetachment from resultstrue renunciationwork ethic

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The Sanskrit is public domain; the transliteration was generated for Saarthi. Meanings are original plain-language paraphrases, not a scholarly translation.