BG 5.14
God does not ordain activity, create incentives, or define the relation between cause and effect - this is all enacted by nature.
न कर्मफलसंयोगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते
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na — neither
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kartṛitvaṁ — sense of doership
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na — nor
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karmāṇi — actions
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lokasya — of the people
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sṛijati — creates
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prabhuḥ — God
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na — nor
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karma-phala-saṅyogaṁ — connection to fruits of actions
karma-phala—fruits of actions; sanyogam—connection-
karma — actions, work
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phala — fruits, results
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saṅyogaṁ — connection
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svabhāvas — one's nature
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tu — but
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pravartate — is enacted
God does not ordain activity, create incentives, or define the relation between cause and effect - this is all enacted by nature. God does not accept anyone's virtuous deed nor their sins. Knowledge remains covered by ignorance, and keeps living beings submerged in delusion. But those for whom knowledge of the self has destroyed this ignorance, their wisdom shines like the sun. Those whose intellects pursue it, whose minds think about it, who undergo discipline for it, and who hold it as their highest object, have their impurities cleansed by knowledge and reach a state from which there is no return.
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