# Bhagavad Gita 7.16

**Canonical reference:** `gita.7.16`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

चतुर्विधा भजन्ते मां जनाः सुकृतिनोऽर्जुन।
आर्तो जिज्ञासुरर्थार्थी ज्ञानी च भरतर्षभ ॥

## IAST

caturvidhā bhajante māṃ janāḥ sukṛtino.arjuna
ārto jijñāsurarthārthī jñānī ca bharatarṣabha

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

and who incline to the demoniac state of mind do not resort to me. But O Arjuna ! doers of good (acts) of four classes worship me: one who is distressed one who is seeking after knowledge one who wants wealth and one O chief of the descendants of Bharata! who is possessed of knowledge. Of these he who is possessed of knowledge

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