Chapter 5 · Verse 10 · Karma Sanyasa Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 5.10
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
In plain words
You are exhausted because you are trying to control what you cannot control—the marriage, the debt, the diagnosis, the outcome of your work. Krishna says: do what is yours to do, offer it honestly, and then release your grip on what happens next. The mud does not cling to the lotus leaf, and your worth will not cling to failure or success—only to whether you showed up and tried.
Word by Word
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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