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प्रकृतेः क्रियमाणानि गुणैः कर्माणि सर्वशः। अहङ्कारविमूढात्मा कर्ताऽहमिति मन्यते।।3.27।।

prakṛiteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśhaḥ ahankāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 3, Verse 27
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
All actions are wrought in all cases by the qualities of Nature alone. He whose mind is deluded by egoism thinks, "I am the doer."

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: all actions are actually performed by nature's forces, and the deluded ego alone claims 'I am the doer,' locating the illusion specifically in personal ownership of action.

In life: taking excessive personal credit, or excessive personal blame, for outcomes shaped by many factors is its own kind of confusion.

Teaching: when reviewing a success or failure, name the other forces, people, timing, circumstance, that shaped it, not just your own role.

prakṛiteḥof material nature
kriyamāṇānicarried out
guṇaiḥby the three modes
karmāṇiactivities
sarvaśhaḥall kinds of
ahankāra-vimūḍha-ātmāthose who are bewildered by the ego and misidentify themselves with the body
kartāthe doer
ahamI
itithus
manyatethinks

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
3.27 प्रकृतेः of nature? क्रियमाणानि are performed? गुणैः by the alities? कर्माणि actions? सर्वशः in all cases? अहङ्कारविमूढात्मा one whose mind is deluded by egosim? कर्ता doer? अहम् I? इति thus? मन्यते thinks.Commentary Prakriti or Pradhana or Nature is that state in which the three Gunas? viz.? Sattva? Rajas and Tamas exist in a state of eilibrium. When this eilibrium is disturbed? creation begins body? senses? mind? etc.? are formed. The man who is deluded by egoism identifies the Self with the body? mind? the life force and the senses and ascribes to the Self all the attributes of the body and the senses. He? therefore? thinks through ignorance? I am the doer. In reality the Gunas of Nature perform all actions. (Cf.III.29V.9IX.9?10XIII.21?24?30?32XVIII.13?14).