Chapter 12 · Verse 10 · Bhakti Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 12.10
Sanskrit
अभ्यासेऽप्यसमर्थोऽसि मत्कर्मपरमो भव।मदर्थमपि कर्माणि कुर्वन् सिद्धिमवाप्स्यसि।।12.10।।
Transliteration
abhyāse ’py asamartho ’si mat-karma-paramo bhava mad-artham api karmāṇi kurvan siddhim avāpsyasi
In plain words
You may feel you're not good enough—not disciplined enough, not skilled enough, not healing fast enough. Krishna says: stop measuring yourself against perfection, and instead offer what you *can* do, imperfectly, as a gift to something larger than your own success. When you release the crushing weight of needing to fix yourself and simply serve—your marriage, your health, your purpose—with an open heart, something shifts that no amount of self-effort alone can create.
Word by Word
When the mind falters and discipline feels impossible, Krishna offers a radical shift: stop performing for yourself, and perform for Me. This is the heart of bhakti—not striving to perfect yourself through effort, but offering imperfect action into the hands of the Divine.
When you work not for personal achievement but as an offering to the Infinite, the burden of perfection dissolves, and grace flows through your ordinary deeds. Today, this means releasing the exhaustion of self-improvement and instead asking: what would change if I worked, served, and acted as an offering to something larger than my own success?
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Bhagavad Gita 12.10 — BG 12.10
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