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Chapter 18 · Verse 45 · Moksha Sanyaas Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 18.45

serene Karma & Action Dharma & Duty Moksha & Liberation

Sanskrit

स्वे स्वे कर्मण्यभिरतः संसिद्धिं लभते नरः।स्वकर्मनिरतः सिद्धिं यथा विन्दति तच्छृणु।।18.45।।

Transliteration

sve sve karmaṇy abhirataḥ sansiddhiṁ labhate naraḥ sva-karma-nirataḥ siddhiṁ yathā vindati tach chhṛiṇu

Word by Word

sve sve respectively
karmaṇi work
abhirataḥ fulfilling
sansiddhim perfection
labhate achieve
naraḥ a person
sva-karma to one’s own prescribed duty
nirataḥ engaged
siddhim perfection
yathā as
vindati attains
tat that
śhṛiṇu hear
Simplified Perspective

When you cease fighting your nature and surrender fully to the work that calls you—the work your gifts and station naturally flow toward—you step into an ancient current of grace that carries you toward perfection itself. The Vedas teach that this is not effort born of ego, but alignment with dharma, the cosmic order woven through your being.

Every person who has truly flourished has discovered this: not in becoming someone else, but in becoming fully themselves through their own rightful action. '—that whisper is often dharma calling.

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Bhagavad Gita 18.45 — BG 18.45

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Sanskrit text from the Bhagavad Gita (public domain). Commentary © Mahakatha.

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