# Bhagavad Gita 18.59

**Canonical reference:** `gita.18.59`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यदहंकारमाश्रित्य न योत्स्य इति मन्यसे।
मिथ्यैष व्यवसायस्ते प्रकृतिस्त्वां नियोक्ष्यति ॥

## IAST

yadahaṃkāramāśritya na yotsya iti manyase
mithyaiṣa vyavasāyaste prakṛtistvāṃ niyokṣyati

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

If entertaining egotism, you think that you may not fight, vain, indeed, is that resolution of yours. Nature will constrain you. That

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