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Bhagavad Gita 3.30

मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा।निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः॥

mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi saṃnyasyādhyātmacetasā |nirāśīrnirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigatajvaraḥ ||

Renouncing all actions in Me, with the mind centered on the Self, free from hope and egoism, and from mental fever, fight thou.

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

Therefore, surrender your actions to Me, keep your thoughts focused on the Absolute, free from selfishness and without expecting a reward, with a mind free from excitement, begin to fight.

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 3.30 · SatsangVidya