# Bhagavad Gita 17.19

**Canonical reference:** `gita.17.19`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

मूढग्राहेणात्मनो यत्पीडया क्रियते तपः।
परस्योत्सादनार्थं वा तत्तामसमुदाहृतम् ॥

## IAST

mūḍhagrāheṇātmano yatpīḍayā kriyate tapaḥ
parasyotsādanārthaṃ vā tattāmasamudāhṛtam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

and reverence and with ostentatiousness and which is uncertain and transient is here called passionate. And that penance is described as dark which is performed under a misguided conviction with pain to oneself

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