Bhagavad Gita 3.30मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा।निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः ॥
mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi sannyasyādhyātma-chetasā
nirāśhīr nirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigata-jvaraḥ
Sanskrit recitation
Your work, not someone else’s · 3.30–3.35 · Teaching
Translation
Renouncing all actions in Me, with the mind centered on the Self, free from hope and egoism, and from mental fever, fight thou.
Hindi translation
तू विवेकवती बुद्धिके द्वारा सम्पूर्ण कर्तव्य-कर्मोंको मेरे अर्पण करके कामना, ममता और संताप-रहित होकर युद्धरूप कर्तव्य-कर्मको कर।
Meaning
Surrender all the actions to Me with the thought, I perform all actions for the sake of the Lord.Fever means grief, sorrow. (Cf.V.10XVIII.66).
After Swami Sivananda
Your work, not someone else’s· 3.30–3.35→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
3.30Renouncing all actions in Me, with the mind centered on the Self, free from hope and…
- 3.31Those who constantly practice this teaching of Mine with faith and without caviling, they…
- 3.32But those who criticize My teaching and do not practice it, deprived of all knowledge and…
- 3.33Even a wise man acts in accordance with his own nature; beings will follow their nature;…
- 3.34Attachment and aversion for the objects of the senses abide in the senses; let no one come…
- 3.35Better is one's own duty, though devoid of merit, than the duty of another well…
Word-by-word→
- mayi
- unto me
- bhūtvā
- so being
- sannyasya
- renouncing completely
- yudhyasva
- fight
- karmāṇi
- works
- nirmamaḥ
- without ownership
- sarvāṇi
- all
- nirāśhīḥ
- free from hankering for the results of the actions
- vigata-jvaraḥ
- without mental fever
- adhyātma-chetasā
- with the thoughts resting on God
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