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Chapter 18 · Verse 48The Yoga of Liberation and Renunciation

Bhagavad Gita 18.48

BG 18.48 — Chapter 18 (The Yoga of Liberation and Renunciation), Verse 48, with Sanskrit, transliteration & translation.

सहजं कर्म कौन्तेय सदोषमपि न त्यजेत् | सर्वारम्भा हि दोषेण धूमेनाग्निरिवावृताः ||१८-४८||

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sahajaṃ karma kaunteya sadoṣamapi na tyajet . sarvārambhā hi doṣeṇa dhūmenāgnirivāvṛtāḥ ||18-48||

Roman: sahajam karma kaunteya sadoshamapi na tyajet . sarvarambha hi doshena dhumenagnirivavrtah

One should not abandon, O Arjuna, the duty to which one is born, though faulty; for, all undertakings are enveloped by evil, as fire by smoke.