Bhagavad Gita 2.33
Chapter 2, verse 33
Meaning
But if you refuse to fight this righteous battle, you throw away both your own duty and your good name, and that refusal itself becomes the wrong you commit.
The Sanskrit
अथ चेत्त्वमिमं धर्म्यं सङ्ग्रामं न करिष्यसि ।
ततः स्वधर्मं कीर्तिं च हित्वा पापमवाप्स्यसि ॥ ३३ ॥
atha cet tvam imaṃ dharmyaṃ saṃgrāmaṃ na kariṣyasi
tataḥ svadharmaṃ kīrtiṃ ca hitvā pāpam avāpsyasi
Say it
uh-thuh chayt tvum i-mum dhur-myum sun-graa-mum nuh kuh-rish-yuh-si
tuh-tuh svuh-dhur-mum kee-rtim chuh hi-tvaa paa-pum uh-vaap-syuh-si
Word by word
- atha cet
- but if
- tvam imam dharmyam saṃgrāmam
- you, this righteous battle
- na kariṣyasi
- will not fight
- tataḥ
- then
- svadharmam kīrtim ca hitvā
- abandoning your own duty and your honour
- pāpam avāpsyasi
- you will incur wrongdoing
Read it in context: verses 2.33–36What will people say?With the story so far, commentary, and today's lesson: Fear of their opinion, or of letting people down?
Another translation and audio recitation: verse 2.33 on holy-bhagavad-gita.org.
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