# Bhagavad Gita 4.38

**Canonical reference:** `gita.4.38`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते।
तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति ॥

## IAST

na hi jñānena sadṛśaṃ pavitramiha vidyate
tatsvayaṃ yogasaṃsiddhaḥ kālenātmani vindati

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes. For there is in this world no means of sanctification like knowledge and that one perfected by devotion finds within one's self in time.

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