# Bhagavad Gita 3.5

**Canonical reference:** `gita.3.5`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

न हि कश्चित्क्षणमपि जातु तिष्ठत्यकर्मकृत्।
कार्यते ह्यवशः कर्म सर्वः प्रकृतिजैर्गुणैः ॥

## IAST

na hi kaścitkṣaṇamapi jātu tiṣṭhatyakarmakṛt
kāryate hyavaśaḥ karma sarvaḥ prakṛtijairguṇaiḥ

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

since the qualities of nature constrain everybody, not having free-will (in the matter), to some action. The deluded man who

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