# Bhagavad Gita 14.5

**Canonical reference:** `gita.14.5`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसम्भवाः।
निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम् ॥

## IAST

sattvaṃ rajastama iti guṇāḥ prakṛtisambhavāḥ
nibadhnanti mahābāho dehe dehinamavyayam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

the giver of the seed. Goodness passion darkness these qualities born from nature O you of mighty arms! bind down the inexhaustible soul in the body. Of these

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