Bhagavad Gita 5.14न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः।न कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते ॥

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

• 5.13Mentally renouncing all actions and being self-controlled, the embodied one happily rests…

• 5.14Neither does the Lord create agency nor actions for the world, nor union with the fruits…

• 5.15The Lord takes neither the demerit nor the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by…
• 5.16But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, like the sun,…
• 5.17Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That, established in That, with That as…
• 5.18Sages look with an equal eye on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, on a cow,…
• 5.19Even here in this world, those whose minds rest in reality overcome birth; Brahman is…
• 5.20Resting in Brahman, with a steady intellect and undeluded, the knower of Brahman neither…
• 5.21With the self unattached to external contacts, he finds happiness in the Self; with the…
• 5.22The enjoyments that arise from contact are only sources of pain, for they have a beginning…
• 5.23He who is able, while still here in this world, to withstand the impulse born out of…
• 5.24He who is happy within, who rejoices within, and who is illuminated within, that Yogi…
• 5.25The sages obtain absolute freedom or Moksha when their sins have been destroyed, their…
• 5.26Absolute freedom exists on all sides for those self-controlled ascetics who are free from…
• 5.27Shutting out all external contacts and fixing the gaze between the eyebrows, realizing the…
• 5.28With the senses, mind, and intellect ever controlled, having liberation as their supreme…
• 5.29He who knows Me as the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, the great Lord of all the…

na

nor

tu

but

lokasya

of the people

sanyogam

connection

prabhuḥ

God

sṛijati

creates

karmāṇi

actions

pravartate

is enacted

karma-phala

fruits of actions

kartṛitvam

sense of doership

svabhāvaḥ

one’s nature