# Bhagavad Gita 18.9

**Canonical reference:** `gita.18.9`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन।
सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः ॥

## IAST

kāryamityeva yatkarma niyataṃ kriyate.arjuna
saṅgaṃ tyaktvā phalaṃ caiva sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

he does not obtain the fruit of abandonment by making (such) passionate abandonment. When prescribed action is performed O Arjuna ! abandoning attachment and fruit also merely because it ought to be performed that is deemed (to be) a good abandonment. He who is possessed of abandonment being full of goodness and talented and having

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