Bhagavad Gita
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Verse 11
Chapter 18
Verse 12 of 78
Verse 13
Verse 18.12
अनिष्टमिष्टं मिश्रं च त्रिविधं कर्मणः फलम्। भवत्यत्यागिनां प्रेत्य न तु संन्यासिनां क्वचित् ॥18.12॥
18.12 aniṣṭam iṣṭaṃ miśraṃ ca trividhaṃ karmaṇaḥ phalam bhavaty atyāgināṃ pretya na tu saṃnyāsināṃ kva cit
Translations
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BradOriginal Translation

The undesirable, the desirable, and the mixed, is the threefold fruit of action (karma), Accruing to non-abandoners after death; but never for the renouncers (sannyāsinām).

Stoller MillerLiterary

The fruit of action haunts men in death if they fail to relinquish all forms, unwanted, wanted, and mixed— but not if men renounce them.

ZaehnerJesuit

(12) Unwanted—wanted —mixed: threefold is the fruit of work,—[this they experience] at death who have not surrendered [self], but not at all such men as have renounced.

GambhiranandaAdvaita

18.12 The threefold results of actions-the undesirable, the desirable, and the mixed-accrues after death to those who do not resort to renunciation, but never to those who resort to monasticism.

AdidevanandaVishishtadvaita

18.12 Undesirable, desirable and mixed --- thus threefold is the fruit of work that accrues after death to those who have not renounced; but to those who have renounced, none whatsoever.

SivanandaVedanta

18.12 The threefold fruit of action (evil, good and mixed) accrues after death to the non-abandoners, but never to the abandoners.

Commentaries

English
Sanskrit Original
Verse 11
Chapter 18
Verse 12 of 78
Verse 13