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Whatever action a man performeth by his body, speech and mind,[1] whether right or the reverse, these five are the cause thereof. (15)
तत्रैवं सति कर्तारमात्मानं केवलं तु यः ।
पश्यत्यकृतबुद्धित्वान्न स पश्यति दुर्मतिः ॥ १६ ॥
That being so, he verily who—owing to untrained Reason[2]—looketh on his Self, which is isolated, as the actor, he of perverted intelligence, seeth not. (16)
यस्य नाहंकृतो भावो बुद्धिर्यस्य न लिप्यते ।
हत्वाऽपि स इमाँल्लोकान्न हन्ति न निबध्यते ॥ १७ ॥
He who is free from the egoistic notion, whose Reason[2] is not affected, though he slay these peoples, he slayeth not, nor is bound. (17)
ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं परिज्ञाता त्रिविधा कर्मचोदना ।
करणं कर्म कर्तेति त्रिविधः कर्मसङ्ग्रहः ॥ १८ ॥
Knowledge, the knowable and the knower,
