# Bhagavad Gita 2.5

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.5`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

गुरूनहत्वा हि महानुभावान्
श्रेयो भोक्तुं भैक्ष्यमपीह लोके।
हत्वार्थकामांस्तु गुरूनिहैव
भुञ्जीय भोगान् रुधिरप्रदिग्धान् ॥

## IAST

gurūnahatvā hi mahānubhāvān śreyo bhoktuṃ bhaikṣyamapīha loke
hatvārthakāmāṃstu gurūnihaiva bhuñjīya bhogān rudhirapradigdhān

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Not killing (my) preceptors—(men) of great glory—it is better to live even on alms in this world. But killing them though they are avaricious of worldly goods I should only enjoy blood-tainted enjoyments. Nor do we know which of the two is better for us-whether that we should vanquish them

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