# Bhagavad Gita 14.7

**Canonical reference:** `gita.14.7`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम्।
तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसङ्गेन देहिनम् ॥

## IAST

rajo rāgātmakaṃ viddhi tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam
tannibadhnāti kaunteya karmasaṅgena dehinam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Know that passion consists in being enamoured and is produced from craving and attachment. That O son of Kuntī! binds down the embodied (self) with the bond of action.

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