# Bhagavad Gita 4.17

**Canonical reference:** `gita.4.17`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

कर्मणो ह्यपि बोद्धव्यं बोद्धव्यं च विकर्मणः।
अकर्मणश्च बोद्धव्यं गहना कर्मणो गतिः ॥

## IAST

karmaṇo hyapi boddhavyaṃ boddhavyaṃ ca vikarmaṇaḥ
akarmaṇaśca boddhavyaṃ gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

one must also possess knowledge about prohibited action and again one must possess knowledge about inaction. The truth regarding action is abstruse.

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