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# Bhagavadgita 3.3

Bhagavadgītā 3.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.3.3)

śrībhagavān uvāca  
loke 'smin dvividhā niṣṭhā purā proktā mayānagha  
jñānayogena sāṃkhyānāṃ karmayogena yoginām

> The Blessed Lord said:  
> In the beginning (of creation), O sinless one, the twofold path of devotion was given by Me to this world;—the path of knowledge for the meditative, the path of work for the active.  
> — Swami Swarupananda 1909, Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita

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## Translations (3)

- [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.3.3) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English
- [The Bhagavadgîtâ (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 8)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-telang.3.p2) — Kashinath Trimbak Telang 1882, English
- [The Song Celestial](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-arnold.3.p1) — Edwin Arnold 1885, English

## Commentaries (16)

- [Bhagavadgītābhāṣya (Śāṅkarabhāṣya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!sankara.3.29) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Jñāneśvarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.marathi.jnanesvara.jnanesvari.3.32) — Jñāneśvara, Marathi
- [Subodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!sridhara.103.1) — Śrīdhara Svāmin, Sanskrit
- [Bhagavadgītāvīraśaivabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhagavadgitavirasaivabhasya.3.44) — Sanskrit
- [Bhagavadgītāvivaraṇa (Sarvatobhadra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhagavadgitavivarana-sarvatobhadra.1.396) — Sanskrit
- [Bhagavadāśayānusaraṇabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!bhaskara.149.5) — Bhāskara (Vedāntin), Sanskrit
- [Gītārthasaṅgraha (of Abhinavagupta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!abhinavagupta.1.248) — Abhinavagupta, Sanskrit
- [Gītābhāṣya (of Rāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!ramanuja.3.3) — Rāmānuja, Sanskrit
- [Gūḍhārthadīpikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!madhusudana.3.3) — Madhusūdana Sarasvatī 1570, Sanskrit
- [Tātparyabodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!samkarananda.4.71) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit
- [Tattvaprakāśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!kesava-kasmiri.4.3) — Keśava Kāśmīrī, Sanskrit
- [Sārārthavarṣiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!visvanatha.3.3) — Viśvanātha Cakravartin 1680, Sanskrit
- [Bālabodhinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!g-s-pathak.3.2) — G.S. Pathak 1825, Sanskrit
- [Arthaprakāśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!upanisadbrahmayogin.4.2) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1715, Sanskrit
- [Gūḍhārthacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!vanamali-misra.4.3) — Vanamālī Miśra 1660, Sanskrit
- [Vaṃśī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita!vamsidhara-misra.6.3) — Vaṃśīdhara 1675, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.3.3) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.25.3) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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