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Bhagavad Gita 3.22

न मे पार्थास्ति कर्तव्यं त्रिषु लोकेषु किञ्चन।नानवाप्तमवाप्तव्यं वर्त एव च कर्मणि॥

na me pārthāsti kartavyaṃ triṣu lokeṣu kiñcana |nānavāptamavāptavyaṃ varta eva ca karmaṇi ||

There is nothing in the three worlds, O Arjuna, that needs to be done by Me, nor is there anything unattained that needs to be attained; yet I engage Myself in action.

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

There is nothing in this universe, O Arjuna, that I am compelled to do, nor anything for me to attain; yet I persistently remain active.

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.