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Bhagavad Gita 12.11

अथैतदप्यशक्तोऽसि कर्तुं मद्योगमाश्रितः।सर्वकर्मफलत्यागं ततः कुरु यतात्मवान्॥

athaitadapyaśakto'si kartuṃ madyogamāśritaḥ |sarvakarmaphalatyāgaṃ tataḥ kuru yatātmavān ||

If you are unable to do even this, then, resort to union with Me and renounce the fruits of all actions with self-control.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

And if thou art too weak to do even this, then seek refuge in union with Me, and with perfect self-control renounce the fruits of thy actions.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.