Verse 5.14
न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणि लोकस्य सृजति प्रभुः ।
न कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते ॥
Transliteration
na kartṛtvaṃ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ |
na karmaphalasaṃyogaṃ svabhāvastu pravartate ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
Neither agency nor actions does the Lord create for the world, nor union with the fruits of actions. But it is Nature that acts.
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The Lord of the body does not create agency, nor actions for the world, nor the link between action and its fruit. It is nature that does this.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
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By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Krishna says that the prabhu, the lord, does not produce in people the sense of being doers, nor their actions, nor the connection of actions with their results. All this comes from svabhāva, inherent nature. Some read the lord here as the embodied self, the master of the body, and others as God. In either reading, the point is that the highest principle is not responsible for the workings of action and result. These belong to nature. The verse continues the theme of the self as free from the machinery of action.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08