# Bhagavad Gita 17.5

**Canonical reference:** `gita.17.5`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अशास्त्रविहितं घोरं तप्यन्ते ये तपो जनाः।
दम्भाहंकारसंयुक्ताः कामरागबलान्विताः ॥

## IAST

aśāstravihitaṃ ghoraṃ tapyante ye tapo janāḥ
dambhāhaṃkārasaṃyuktāḥ kāmarāgabalānvitāḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Know those to be of demoniac convictions, who practise fierce penance not ordained by scripture who are full of ostentatiousness and egoism, and of desire, attachment, and stubbornness

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