Just as the ignorant act with attachment, O Bharata, so should the wise act — but without attachment, with the desire to maintain the welfare of the world.
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The Bhagavad Gita, translated and commentated by S. Radhakrishnan, is one of the most scholarly and accessible English renderings of Hinduism's most beloved scripture — the dialogue between Arjuna and Lord Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, brings both rigorous intellectual insight and genuine spiritual depth to his translation and notes. This edition is treasured for its ability to illuminate the Gita's universal spiritual teaching across cultural and philosophical boundaries.
- Author
- Krishna
- Tradition
- Hindu
- Source text
- Bhagavad Gita
- Chapter
- Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 3
- Verse / page
- BG.3.25
- Topics
- AltruismActionDetachment
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By action alone did Janaka and others attain perfection. You, too, should act, keeping the welfare of the world in view.
Love is selfless and pure when it has no ulterior motives.
Regardless of their inherent nature, these things cannot help him love God as much as the smallest act of living faith and hope, which is done with selflessness and detachment from all things.