# Bhagavad Gita 18.48

**Canonical reference:** `gita.18.48`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

सहजं कर्म कौन्तेय सदोषमपि न त्यजेत्।
सर्वारम्भा हि दोषेण धूमेनाग्निरिवावृताः ॥

## IAST

sahajaṃ karma kaunteya sadoṣamapi na tyajet
sarvārambhā hi doṣeṇa dhūmenāgnirivāvṛtāḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

O son of Kuntī ! one should not abandon a natural duty though tainted with evil for all actions are enveloped by evil, as fire by smoke.

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