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Verse 18·45

The eternal reality beyond all manifestation

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स्वे स्वे कर्मण्यभिरतः संसिद्धिं लभते नरः ।स्वकर्मनिरतः सिद्धिं यथा विन्दति तच्छृणु ॥

sve sve karmaṇyabhirataḥ saṃsiddhiṃ labhate naraḥsvakarmanirataḥ siddhiṃ yathā vindati tacchṛṇu

A man who is intent on his own natural work attains perfection. Listen thou how perfection is won by him who is intent on his own natural work.

Gītā 18·45

Thus the pursuit of the impulse of works and service rightly done develops knowledge, increases power, trains closeness or balance of mutuality and skill and order of relation. Each front of the fourfold godhead moves through the enlargement of its own dominant principle of nature and enrichment by the other three towards a total perfection.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · pp. 523–24

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