# Bhagavad Gita 7.20

**Canonical reference:** `gita.7.20`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

कामैस्तैस्तैर्हृतज्ञानाः प्रपद्यन्तेऽन्यदेवताः।
तं तं नियममास्थाय प्रकृत्या नियताः स्वया ॥

## IAST

kāmaistaistairhṛtajñānāḥ prapadyante.anyadevatāḥ
taṃ taṃ niyamamāsthāya prakṛtyā niyatāḥ svayā

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Those who are deprived of knowledge by various desires approach other divinities, observing various regulations, and controlled by their own natures.

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