# Bhagavad Gita 2.41

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.41`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिरेकेह कुरुनन्दन।
बहुशाखा ह्यनन्ताश्च बुद्धयोऽव्यवसायिनाम् ॥

## IAST

vyavasāyātmikā buddhirekeha kurunandana
bahuśākhā hyanantāśca buddhayo.avyavasāyinām

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

There is here O descendant of Kuru ! but one state of mind consisting in firm understanding. But the states of mind of those who have no firm understanding are many-branched and endless. The state of mind consisting in firm understanding regarding steady contemplation does not belong to those O son of Pṛthā! who are strongly attached to (worldly) pleasures and power and whose minds are drawn away by that flowery talk which is full of (ordinances of) specific acts for the attainment of (those) pleasures and (that) power and which promises birth as the fruit of acts—(that flowery talk) which those unwise ones utter who are enamoured of Vedic words

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