# Bhagavad Gita 16.5

**Canonical reference:** `gita.16.5`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

दैवी सम्पद्विमोक्षाय निबन्धायासुरी मता।
मा शुचः सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातोऽसि पाण्डव ॥

## IAST

daivī sampadvimokṣāya nibandhāyāsurī matā
mā śucaḥ sampadaṃ daivīmabhijāto.asi pāṇḍava

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

freedom from a desire to injure others absence of vanity, (these) O descendant of Bharata! are his who is born to godlike endowments. Ostentatiousness, pride, vanity, anger, and also harshness and ignorance (are) his, O son of Pṛthā! who is born to demoniac endowments. Godlike endowments are deemed to be (means) for final emancipation, demoniac for bondage. Grieve not, O descendant of Bharata! you are born to godlike endowments.

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