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Chapter 4, Slok 17

🗣 Speaker: zrIbhagavAnBG 4.17

Original Verse

karmaNo hyapi boddhavyaM boddhavyaM ca vikarmaNaH | akarmaNazca boddhavyaM gahanA karmaNo gatiH ||4-17||

Transliteration

karmaṇo hyapi boddhavyaṃ boddhavyaṃ ca vikarmaṇaḥ . akarmaṇaśca boddhavyaṃ gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ ||4-17||

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Commentaries

Swami Adidevananda

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Translation

4.17 For, there is what ought to be known in action. Likewise there is what ought to be known in multi-form action. And there is what ought to be understood in non-action. Thus mysterious is the way of action.