Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12/Verse 12

श्रेयो हि ज्ञानमभ्यासाज्ज्ञानाद्ध्यानं विशिष्यते ।

ध्यानात्कर्मफलत्यागस्त्यागाच्छान्तिरनन्तरम् ॥१२- १२॥

śreyo hi jñānamabhyāsājjñānāddhyānaṃ viśiṣyate ।

dhyānātkarmaphalatyāgastyāgācchāntiranantaram ॥12- 12॥

Knowledge is indeed better than practice, meditation than knowledge, the abandonment of the results of action than meditation. Peace immediately follows from abandonment.  


śreyas (neuter, nominative, singular) = better

hi (adverb) (indeclinable) = indeed

jñānam (neuter, nominative, singular) = knowledge 

abhyāsāt (masculine, ablative, singular) = from practice 

jñānāt (masculine, ablative, singular) = from knowledge 

dhyānam (neuter, nominative, singular) = meditation 

viśiṣyate (present tense, passive, 3rd person, singular) = it is preferred 

dhyānāt (neuter, ablative, singular) = from meditation 

karmaphalatyāgas (karma + phala + tyāgas) (masculine, nominative, singular) = the abandonment of the results of action

tyāgāt (masculine, ablative, singular) = from abandonment 

śāntis (feminine, nominative, singular) = peace 

anantaram (adverb) (indeclinable) = immediately follows