Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3/Verse 3

श्रीभगवानुवाच

लोकेऽस्मिन्द्विविधा निष्ठा पुरा प्रोक्ता मयानघ ।
ज्ञानयोगेन सांख्यानां कर्मयोगेन योगिनाम् ॥३- ३॥

śrībhagavānuvāca

loke'smindvividhā niṣṭhā purā proktā mayānagha ।
jñānayogena sāṃkhyānāṃ karmayogena yoginām ॥3- 3॥

The Blessed One said, in this world the method [is] two-fold, as previously declared by me, Blameless One.  By the yoga of knowledge of the Sāṃkhyas [and] by the yoga of action of the yogins


Word-for-word translation

śrībhagavān (masculine, nominative, singular) = the Blessed One (epithet of Krishna)

uvāca (past tense, 3rd person, singular) = said

loke  (masculine, locative, singular) = in the world

asmin (demonstrative pronoun) (masculine, locative, singular) = in this

dvividhā (feminine, nominative, singular) = two-fold

niṣṭhā (feminine, nominative, singular) = method

purā (adverb) (indeclinable) = previously

proktā (past passive participle) (masculine, nominative, singular) = declared

mayā (instrumental, singular) = by me

anagha (masculine, vocative, singular) = Blameless One (epithet of Arjuna)

jñānayogena (masculine, instrumental, singular) = by the yoga of knowledge

sāṃkhyānām (masculine, genitive, plural) = of the Sāṃkhyas

karmayogena (masculine, instrumental, singular) = by the yoga of action

yoginām (masculine, genitive, plural) =of the yogins