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कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते
You have the right to act...
A guided meditation on this verse: settle, breathe with its meaning, rest in silence, and carry its essence into your day.
नैव किञ्चित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् |
पश्यञ्शृण्वन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपञ्श्वसन् ||५-८||
naiva kiñcitkaromīti yukto manyeta tattvavit .
paśyañśruṇvanspṛśañjighrannaśnangacchansvapañśvasan ||5-8||
Krishna describes how an awakened person experiences daily life: "The person who truly knows thinks, 'I am not doing anything at all' — even while seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, walking, sleeping, and breathing."
Listen
नैव किञ्चित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् |
पश्यञ्शृण्वन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपञ्श्वसन् ||५-८||
naiva kiñcitkaromīti yukto manyeta tattvavit .
paśyañśruṇvanspṛśañjighrannaśnangacchansvapañśvasan ||5-8||
BG 5.8
Settle
Even as you see, hear, and breathe, something in you does nothing at all. Watch yourself act as if watching another.
The essence
Even while acting, I do nothing at all.
Breathe
You watch the doing You rest as the one who does nothing
Contemplate
If you are not the doer, who is watching it all happen?
Take with you
Write of yourself in the third person, as the watcher would.