{ "verse_id": "5.14", "mūla": { "devanāgarī": "न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः | न कर्म-फल-संयोगं स्वभावस् तु प्रवर्तते", "iast": "na kartṛtvaṃ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ | na karma-phala-saṃyogaṃ svabhāvas tu pravartate", "chapter_position": "Chapter 5 (Karma-Sannyāsa-Yoga (The Yoga of Renunciation)), verse 14", "speaker": "Krishna", "addressed_to": "Arjuna" }, "word_by_word": [ { "surface_form": "na", "lemma": "na", "grammar": "", "senses_attested_in_panel": [], "theme_lists": [], "surface_devanagari": "न" }, { "surface_form": "kartṛ", "lemma": "kartṛ", "grammar": "compound (compound member)", "senses_attested_in_panel": [], "theme_lists": [], "surface_devanagari": "कर्तृ" }, { "surface_form": "tvam", "lemma": "tva", "grammar": "accusative neuter singular noun", "senses_attested_in_panel": [], "theme_lists": [], "surface_devanagari": "त्वम्" }, { "surface_form": "na", "lemma": "na", "grammar": "", "senses_attested_in_panel": [], "theme_lists": [], 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जन्यदेवादिफलसंयोगं", "school": "viśiṣṭādvaita", "weight": 0.8, "witnesses": [ "ramanuja" ] }, { "sense": "प्राकृतशरीराभिमानिनः नानायोनिबीजाशयस्वभावकृतिकस्य कर्तृत्वं कर्माणि तत्फलसंयोगं", "school": "śuddhādvaita", "weight": 0.8, "witnesses": [ "vallabha" ] }, { "sense": "देहादेः कर्तृत्वं प्रभुरात्मा स्वामी न सृजति त्वं कुर्विति नियोगेन", "school": "advaita-bhakti", "weight": 0.8, "witnesses": [ "madhusudan" ] } ], "theme_lists": [], "surface_devanagari": "लोकस्य" }, { "surface_form": "sṛjati", "lemma": "√sṛj", "grammar": "present indicative 3rd person singular verb", "senses_attested_in_panel": [ { "sense": "उत्पादयति प्रभुः आत्मा", "school": "advaita", "weight": 0.8, "witnesses": [ "shankara" ] }, { "sense": "नोत्पादयति", "school": "viśiṣṭādvaita", "weight": 0.8, "witnesses": [ "ramanuja", "vedantadeshika" ] }, { "sense": "। किन्तु तादृशः स्वभावो लोकनिष्ठः स्वत एव प्रवर्तते। अन्यथा परमात्मनो वैषम्यनैर्घृण्यप्रसङ्गः।", "school": "śuddhādvaita", "weight": 0.8, "witnesses": [ "vallabha" 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"advaita": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "shankara_5.14", "anandgiri_5.14" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "The sovereign (prabhuh, the ātman) neither fabricates agenthood (kartrtva) for the world, nor its desired objects — chariots, pots, palaces — nor the union of action with fruit; it is svabhāva (the nature that is māyā, avidyā) that moves. From the ultimate standpoint (paramārthatah), the ātman neither does nor causes anything: what appears as doing is entirely the projection of beginningless nescience. Liberation is the recognition that no real agenthood ever belonged to the self." }, "viśiṣṭādvaita": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "ramanuja_5.14", "vedantadeshika_5.14" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "The sovereign ātman — abiding in its own intrinsic form (svābhāvika-svarūpa), untouched by karma — does not generate the distinctive agenthood belonging to devas, animals, humans, or plants, nor their specific actions, nor their species-specific fruit-unions. What moves is svabhāva: the residual tendency (vāsanā) built up through beginningless prior karma that has conjoined the ātman with particular forms of prakṛti. Agenthood belongs to conditioned nature, not to the ātman's own essence." }, "dvaita": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "madhva_5.14", "jayatirtha_5.14" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "The jīva (prabhuh here read as the jīva, lord with respect to inert matter) does not in truth (vastutah) possess agenthood on its own: it is always dependent (jāda-apekṣya, dependent on inert instruments). Agency appears when the jīva misidentifies itself with the body-instrument complex, not as a property of the ātman as such. Hari alone is the ultimate ordainer; the jīva's apparent activity is fully contingent." }, "śuddhādvaita": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "vallabha_5.14" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "The Paramātman (prabhu, Īśvara) does not author the agenthood, actions, or fruit-unions of the world of embodied beings — for Īśvara to do so would implicate Him in partiality (vaiṣamya) and cruelty (nairghṛṇya). Rather it is the svabhāva immanent in the world — the nature constituted of manifold womb-seeds and impressions (nānā-yoni-bīja-āśaya) — that moves of itself. The way out is not more karma but surrender of the ego's false agenthood: only then does the ātman's self-mastery (ātmaiva ātmano bandhuḥ) become operative." }, "bhakti": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "sridhara_5.14" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "The verse answers an Upaniṣadic objection: since śruti says 'He (Paramīśvara) causes the worthy to perform good deeds and the unworthy to perform bad' (Kauṣītakī), is the jīva not simply compelled — and if so, how can it renounce action? Śrīdhara resolves this: Īśvara does not himself generate (na sṛjati) the jīva's agenthood, its actions, or its fruit-unions. Instead Īśvara sets in motion what is already the jīva's own svabhāva — the nature of avidyā and desire accumulated over beginningless time — without becoming its creator. The karmic weight rests entirely with the jīva." }, "advaita-bhakti": { "reading_summary": "(reading summary extraction pending; ENABLE_READING_SUMMARIES=true to generate)", "key_cross_references": [], "witness_passages": [ "madhusudan_5.14" ], "score": 0.5, "english_rendering": "Madhusūdana distinguishes three distinct negations with surgical precision: the ātman (prabhu, the inner sovereign) is neither the inducer of agenthood ('do this' — niyoga-kartā), nor the direct doer of desired objects (ghaṭa, etc.), nor the binder of the doer to fruit (bhojayitā-bhoktā). All three roles are svabhāva's — the divine māyā that appears as avidyā. As a sky does not actually become soiled by the cloud it seems to hold, the ātman is untouched. 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Practice tracing credit and blame back to the conditioned stream — body, habit, circumstance — without landing the weight on a fixed self. The goal is not apathy but the lightness that comes when the self stops defending a ledger it never actually owned.", "viśiṣṭādvaita": "Recognize that your characteristic style of acting — the way you instinctively lead, avoid, or help — is not 'you' but an accumulated vāsanā-pattern laid down by prior relationships, roles, and karmic encounter. This is not fatalism: the pattern is yours to offer as kainkarya (service) to Bhagavān rather than to hoard as personal identity. Redirect the habitual energy; do not merely suppress it.", "dvaita": "In any moment of 'I am the one making this happen,' look for what inert structure you are leaning on — the body, the tool, the institution, the social role. Your agency is real but always borrowed and dependent. Cultivate the humility of a vessel: act fully, claim nothing, refer all effective power to Hari.", "śuddhādvaita": "Stop auditing your own motives for purity before acting. The ego that watches itself act, judging whether it is being selfless enough, is itself the ahaṃkāra (ego-sense) that the verse is dissolving. Offer the action to Kṛṣṇa before, not after: the offering changes the action's metabolism, not its external form.", "bhakti": "When you feel compelled by habit, appetite, or social pressure to act against your better judgment, do not immediately blame yourself or Providence. The verse names this precisely: svabhāva — your own accumulated nature — is what moves you. The task is not to erase svabhāva in one willful stroke but to bring it consciously into relationship with discernment (viveka), gradually loosening its autonomous hold.", "advaita-bhakti": "Distinguish three distinct moments of ownership you attach to action: 'I directed this' (inducer), 'I produced this' (maker), 'I deserve this result' (enjoyer). Drop each separately. You need not wait until all three dissolve at once — even loosening one creates interior space. The śruti promise is that the witness-self, the ātman that 'seems to meditate, seems to tremble' (dhyāyatīva lelāyatīva), is already free; practice is simply stopping the re-narration." }, "primary_meaning": "The inner sovereign neither creates agenthood in the world nor actions nor their bond to fruit. Nature alone moves." }