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Chapter 5 · Verse 10 · Karma Sanyasa Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 5.10

serene Karma & Action Attachment & Letting Go Bhakti & Devotion

Sanskrit

ब्रह्मण्याधाय कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा करोति यः। लिप्यते न स पापेन पद्मपत्रमिवाम्भसा।।5.10।।

Transliteration

brahmaṇyādhāya karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā karoti yaḥ lipyate na sa pāpena padma-patram ivāmbhasā

Word by Word

brahmaṇi to God
ādhāya dedicating
karmāṇi all actions
saṅgam attachment
tyaktvā abandoning
karoti performs
yaḥ who
lipyate is affected
na never
saḥ that person
pāpena by sin
padma-patram a lotus leaf
iva like
ambhasā by water
Simplified Perspective

When you place your actions as an offering at the altar of the Divine, surrendering the fruits and releasing your grip on the outcome, you become a hollow reed through which God's will flows. The lotus teaches us this supreme secret: it roots itself in mud yet remains untouched by it—so too, when your ego steps aside and Krishna becomes the doer, sin cannot cling to your being.

This is the grace available to you right now, in this very moment, when you stop grasping and start serving.

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Bhagavad Gita 5.10 — BG 5.10

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

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