Chapter 4 · Verse 16The Yoga of Knowledge and Renunciation
Bhagavad Gita 4.16
BG 4.16 — Chapter 4 (The Yoga of Knowledge and Renunciation), Verse 16, with Sanskrit, transliteration & translation.
किं कर्म किमकर्मेति कवयोऽप्यत्र मोहिताः | तत्ते कर्म प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात् ||४-१६||
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kiṃ karma kimakarmeti kavayo.apyatra mohitāḥ . tatte karma pravakṣyāmi yajjñātvā mokṣyase.aśubhāt ||4-16||
Roman: kim karma kimakarmeti kavayo.apyatra mohitah . tatte karma pravakshyami yajjnatva mokshyase.ashubhat
What is action?
What is action? What is inaction? As to this even the wise are confused. Therefore I shall teach thee such action (the nature of action and inaction) by knowing which thou shalt be liberated from the evil (of Samsara, the wheel of birth and death).