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“Imperfect right action is safer than perfect imitation.”
अच्छी तरह आचरणमें लाये हुए दूसरेके धर्मसे गुणोंकी कमीवाला अपना धर्म श्रेष्ठ है । अपने धर्ममें तो मरना भी कल्याणकारक है और दूसरेका धर्म भयको देनेवाला है ॥
श्लोक क्रम में — हर संस्कृत शब्द और नीचे उसका अर्थ। किसी शब्द पर जाकर उसे देखें।
शब्दशःbetter · one's own duty · imperfect, lacking qualities · than another's duty · well performed · in one's own duty · death · better, more auspicious · another's duty · fearful, dangerous
Your own responsibility matters more than copying someone else's path. Even if you do it imperfectly, it is better than doing another person's role well.
यह श्लोक Krishna द्वारा कहा गया है, कुरुक्षेत्र की भूमि पर, अध्याय "कर्म योग" में।
श्लोक 35 भगवद् गीता के 3वें अध्याय में है — कर्म योग। इस अध्याय में कुल 43 श्लोक हैं।
You are in a room full of people telling you what you should be: the calmer sibling, the louder leader, the easier partner. The verse cuts through the comparison and asks what is actually yours to do.
Did you like this verse?
It shifts attention from imitation to rightful action. The measure is not polish, but fidelity to one's own role.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
Your own responsibility matters more than copying someone else's path. Even if you do it imperfectly, it is better than doing another person's role well.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On the battlefield, Arjuna is frozen between his warrior duty and his fear of killing relatives. Krishna answers by grounding him in his own role: the right action is not the one that looks easiest or most polished, but the one that belongs to him.
आज के जीवन में महत्व
You are in a room full of people telling you what you should be: the calmer sibling, the louder leader, the easier partner. The verse cuts through the comparison and asks what is actually yours to do.
“You can stop measuring yourself against others and return to the work that is actually yours.”
संबंधित विषय: kurukshetra (95 श्लोक), duty (13 श्लोक)