Skip to content

Bhagavad Gita 2.39

एषा तेऽभिहिता सांख्ये बुद्धिर्योगे त्विमां श्रृणु।बुद्ध्यायुक्तो यया पार्थ कर्मबन्धं प्रहास्यसि॥

eṣā te'bhihitā sāṃkhye buddhiryoge tvimāṃ śrṛṇu |buddhyāyukto yayā pārtha karmabandhaṃ prahāsyasi ||

This, which has been taught to you, is wisdom concerning Sankhya. Now listen to wisdom concerning Yoga, endowed with which, O Arjuna, you shall cast off the bonds of action.

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

I have told you the philosophy of knowledge. Now, listen, and I will explain the philosophy of action, by means of which, O Arjuna, you will break through the bondage of all action.

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.