# Bhagavad Gita 3.1

**Canonical reference:** `gita.3.1`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अर्जुन उवाच।
ज्यायसी चेत्कर्मणस्ते मता बुद्धिर्जनार्दन।
तत्किं कर्मणि घोरे मां नियोजयसि केशव ॥

## IAST

arjuna uvāca
jyāyasī cetkarmaṇaste matā buddhirjanārdana
tatkiṃ karmaṇi ghore māṃ niyojayasi keśava

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

If, O Ganārdana! devotion is deemed by you to be superior to action, then why, O Kesava! do you prompt me to (this) fearful action?

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