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Bhagavad Gita 3.29

प्रकृतेर्गुणसम्मूढाः सज्जन्ते गुणकर्मसु।तानकृत्स्नविदो मन्दान्कृत्स्नविन्न विचालयेत्॥

prakṛterguṇasammūḍhāḥ sajjante guṇakarmasu |tānakṛtsnavido mandānkṛtsnavinna vicālayet ||

Those deluded by the qualities of Nature are attached to the functions of the qualities. The man of perfect knowledge should not unsettle the foolish one who is of imperfect knowledge.

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

Those who do not understand the qualities are interested in the act; however, the wise man who knows the truth should not disturb the mind of those who do not.

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.

Bhagavad Gita 3.29 · SatsangVidya