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Bhagavad Gita 14.9

Spoken by Krishna (the Blessed Lord)

Sanskrit — recorded

सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः कर्मणि भारत । ज्ञानमावृत्य तु तमः प्रमादे सञ्जयत्युत

Sanskrit text as printed in The Bhagavad-Gita, 1922

Translation — recorded

Harmony attacheth to bliss, Motion to action O Bharata. Inertia, verily, having shrouded wisdom, attacheth on the contrary to heedlessness.

Translated by Annie Wood Besant, 1922

Not in this edition

Transliteration
Not provided by the 1922 edition.
Word-by-word meaning
Not provided by the 1922 edition.
Commentary
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Custody of this record

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  1. Printed, 1922Known

    Annie Besant, The Bhagavad-Gita, 4th edition, with the text in Devanagari and an English translation.

  2. Transcribed and proofreadKnown

    By volunteers at English Wikisource, from a scan of that edition. View the transcription

  3. Verse number — as printedKnown

    Taken from the number printed beside the verse.

  4. Speaker — carried forwardInferred

    The edition names a speaker only where a speech begins. Krishna (the Blessed Lord) is carried forward from the last speaker line in this chapter of the Sanskrit.

  5. RightsKnown

    PUBLIC DOMAIN · PUBLIC DOMAIN · 1922Public domain in the United States, where it was published before 1931, and in India, where the translator’s death in 1933 put it out of copyright.