पञ्चैतानि महाबाहो कारणानि निबोध मे ।साङ्ख्ये कृतान्ते प्रोक्तानि सिद्धये सर्वकर्मणाम् ॥
pañcaitāni mahābāho kāraṇāni nibodha me |sāṅkhye kṛtānte proktāni siddhaye sarvakarmaṇām ||
- पञ्च · pañca
- five
- एतानि · etāni
- these
- महाबाहो · mahābāho
- O mighty-armed one
- कारणानि · kāraṇāni
- causes, factors
- निबोध · nibodha
- learn, understand
- मे · me
- from me
- साङ्ख्ये · sāṅkhye
- in the Sankhya teaching
- कृतान्ते · kṛtānte
- in the doctrine of action's end, the Vedanta
- प्रोक्तानि · proktāni
- declared
- सिद्धये · siddhaye
- for the accomplishment
- सर्वकर्मणाम् · sarvakarmaṇām
- of all actions
“Learn from me, O mighty-armed one, these five factors for the accomplishment of all actions, as declared in the Sankhya teaching.”
— Original plain-language translation
Krishna now undermines the ego's claim 'I alone did it' by listing five co-causes of every act. The point serves the renunciation theme: if five factors produce each deed, sole authorship — and sole ownership of results — is an illusion. The Sankhya reference roots this in the tradition's analysis of agency.
— Reader's notes (original)