# Bhagavad Gita 14.9

**Canonical reference:** `gita.14.9`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः कर्मणि भारत।
ज्ञानमावृत्य तु तमः प्रमादे सञ्जयत्युत ॥

## IAST

sattvaṃ sukhe sañjayati rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata
jñānamāvṛtya tu tamaḥ pramāde sañjayatyuta

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Goodness unites (the self) with pleasure passion, O descendant of Bharata! with action and darkness with heedlessness, after shrouding up knowledge.

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