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Bhagavad Gita 3.18

Chapter 3: Karma Yoga (The Yoga of Action) · कर्मयोग

नैव तस्य कृतेनार्थो नाकृतेनेह कश्चन ।न चास्य सर्वभूतेषु कश्िचदर्थव्यपाश्रयः ॥

naiva tasya kṛtenārtho nākṛteneha kaścana |na cāsya sarvabhūteṣu kaśिcadarthavyapāśrayaḥ ||

Meaning of Gita 3.18 in English

Such a person gains nothing by acting and loses nothing by not acting, and they do not depend on any being for anything.

गीता 3.18 का हिंदी अर्थ

ऐसे व्यक्ति को न कर्म करने से कोई लाभ है, न कर्म न करने से कोई हानि, और वह किसी प्राणी पर किसी स्वार्थ के लिए निर्भर नहीं रहता।

self-realizationindependencefreedom

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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.