Chapter 3 · Verse 33 · Karma Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 3.33
Sanskrit
सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि। प्रकृतिं यान्ति भूतानि निग्रहः किं करिष्यति।।3.33।।
Transliteration
sadṛiśhaṁ cheṣhṭate svasyāḥ prakṛiter jñānavān api prakṛitiṁ yānti bhūtāni nigrahaḥ kiṁ kariṣhyati
In plain words
You are exhausted from fighting yourself—from hating your anger, your doubt, your weakness, your want. Krishna says: stop. Your nature is not your enemy; your war against it is. When you stop pretending to be different and instead offer who you actually are to something greater, you stop wasting the only power you have—the power to act with honest intention, right now, as you are.
Word by Word
Even the wise person cannot escape the pull of their own nature—this is not defeat, but the honest ground of spiritual practice. The Gita teaches that everyone, from the scholar to the seeker, must work within their own constitutional makeup; repression of nature creates only suffering and hypocrisy.
When you stop fighting what you are and instead purify your actions through intention and surrender, you transform karma itself into a vehicle of liberation. Start today by observing your own nature without shame, and offer every action—however imperfect—to something greater than yourself.
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Bhagavad Gita 3.33 — BG 3.33
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