# Bhagavad Gita 2.44

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.44`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयापहृतचेतसाम्।
व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः समाधौ न विधीयते ॥

## IAST

bhogaiśvaryaprasaktānāṃ tayāpahṛtacetasām
vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ samādhau na vidhīyate

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

The Vedas (merely) relate to the effects of the three qualities

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