# Bhagavad Gita 13.20

**Canonical reference:** `gita.13.20`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

कार्यकारणकर्तृत्वे हेतुः प्रकृतिरुच्यते।
पुरुषः सुखदुःखानां भोक्तृत्वे हेतुरुच्यते ॥

## IAST

kāryakāraṇakartṛtve hetuḥ prakṛtirucyate
puruṣaḥ sukhaduḥkhānāṃ bhoktṛtve heturucyate

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Nature is said to be the origin of the capacity of working (residing) in the body and the senses and spirit is said (to be) the origin of the capacity of enjoying pleasures and pains. For spirit with nature joined

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