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# The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.26.41

Mahābhārata 6.26.41

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.26.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.26.41)

yogasaṃnyastakarmāṇaṃ jñānasaṃchinnasaṃśayam |  
ātmavantaṃ na karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanaṃjaya || 41 ||

> Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness, is for him whose mind is full of doubt. Actions do not fetter him, O Dhananjaya, who hath cast off action by devotion, whose doubts have been dispelled by knowledge, and who is self-restrained. Therefore, destroying, by the sword of knowledge, this doubt of thine that is born of ignorance and that dwelleth in thy mind, betake to devotion, (and) arise, O son of Bharata.'  
> — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

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## Translations (2)

- [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.28.3.5) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English
- [Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita~en-swarupananda.4.41) — Swami Swarupananda 1909, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.28.41) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (2)

- [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.28.41) — Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.28.41) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.4.41) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Vulgate (700 verses)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita*vulgate.4.41) — Sanskrit

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