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Bhagavad Gita 3.22

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

न मे पार्थास्ति कर्तव्यं त्रिषु लोकेषु किञ्चन ।नानवाप्तमवाप्तव्यं वर्त एव च कर्मणि ॥

na me pārthāsti kartavyaṃ triṣu lokeṣu kiñcana |nānavāptamavāptavyaṃ varta eva ca karmaṇi ||

Meaning of Gita 3.22 in English

Krishna says there is nothing in all three worlds that he must do, nothing he lacks or needs to gain — and yet he keeps on acting.

गीता 3.22 का हिंदी अर्थ

श्रीकृष्ण कहते हैं कि तीनों लोकों में मेरे लिए कोई कर्तव्य नहीं, न कुछ पाना बाकी है — फिर भी मैं कर्म में लगा रहता हूँ।

setting an exampleselfless actionleadership

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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.