Sanskrit
मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा । निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः ॥
mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi saṃnyasyādhyātmacetasā nirāśīr nirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva vigatajvaraḥ
Translation
Surrendering all actions to Me, with thy thoughts resting on the supreme Self, from hope and egoism freed, and of mental fever cured, engage in battle.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The chapter’s abstract argument lands on Arjuna directly: surrender all actions to Krishna and fight. This is a different kind of renunciation than the sannyasa verse 4 rejected — not abstaining from the act, but surrendering the sense of ownership over it (“mine-less”), consistent with everything argued since verse 9. It’s also the first explicit instruction to surrender action to Krishna personally, a devotional register that becomes central much later, in chapters 9, 12, and 18.
Concepts