English Translation of Chapter 3 without Verses 
।3.1।   Lord Krishna! If you consider intelligence superior to action, why are you urging me to indulge in this war.

।3.2।   You, with your confusing suggestions, are deluding my mind. Please decide one way that is beneficial and right for me to do and tell it to me.

।3.3।   The Lord said - O sinless Arjuna, in this world, two types of faiths have been said by me that states the Gyan Yoga (Sankhya Yoga) for the wise and the Karma Yoga for the ascetics.

।3.4।   One doesn't secure worklessness by not beginning action, neither does he earn success merely by renouncing all the actions.

।3.5।   No one can spend even a single moment without action because all are forced to act, under the three characteristics (Gunas) of nature.

।3.6।   He who, forcefully restraining the organs of action, keeps thinking of the sense-objects in mind, he is of deluded understanding and is called a hypocrite.

।3.7।   Those human beings excel, who become detached from the sense objects mentally, control his senses and engage in karma yoga.

।3.8।   You perform the obligatory duties, for action is superior to inaction. And, through inaction, even the maintenance of your body will not be possible.

।3.9।   Man becomes bound by actions other than that action meant for God and for fulfilling his basic duties(duty for his body, for his parents, for her husband, for his wife etc.). Without being attached, O son of Kunti, you perform actions for Him.

।3.10।   Creator of this universe, at the time of creation, created creatures together with necessary action and declared: By means of this, you shalll propagate and flourish; and this process will also fulfill all your wishes.

।3.11।   By performing these defined works (Karma-Yagna), please the gods (devas), and the gods (devas) will support you. Thus nourishing one another, you will reach the highest good.

।3.12।   The gods, pleased by the sacrifice, will bestow on you the enjoyments you desire. He who enjoys the bounty of the gods without giving them anything in return, is a thief.

।3.13।   Pious men who eat the remnants of sacrifices are freed from all sins. But the sinful ones who cook (work) only for their own sake, earn only sin.

।3.14।   From food are born the creatures; the origin of food is from rainfall; rainfall originates from offerings, which originates from action.

।3.15।   Know that action comes from Brahma and Brahma comes from the Imperishable (Akshara). Therefore, the all-pervading (Brahma) ever resides in sacrifice (offerings).

।3.16।   O Arjuna! who does not behave accrding to this cycle of world, indulges in senses, lives a sinful life; and he lives in vain.

।3.17।   But the man who wanders in the self and do not need external objects for sensual pleasures, who is satisfied with the self, who rejoices in the self, for him nothing remains to be accomplished.

।3.18।   He has no purpose to gain by work done or left undone. He need not maintain any selfish relation with anyone for fulfilling his needs.

।3.19।   Therefore do your rightful duty continuously without attachment. For, a man who works without attachment attains to the Supreme.

।3.20।   Janaka and others attained perfection verily by action only; even with a view to help the world (to help the world stay together, prevention of mankind going astray) you should keep on acting and doing good deeds.

।3.21।   Whatever a great man does, other men also do. Whichever standard he sets, common people follows it.

।3.22।   There is no work prescribed for Me in all the three planetary systems. There is no desire which is beyond my reach , and yet I am engaged in prescribed duties and continue in action.

।3.23।   O Arjuna, if at any time I do not continue vigilantly in action, men will follow My path in every way. So men will also stop working and that will be the reason for great loss.

।3.24।   If I do not do work, the world would be lost; and I will be the reason for causing chaos in life and thereby ruining all these people.

।3.25।   O Arjuna, as the unelightened poeple act with attachment to work, so should the enlightened person act, without attachment, for the ultimate benefit of the world.

।3.26।   The enlightened man should not create doubts in the minds of the ignorant, who are attached to work. While himself doing the work in the right manner, he should diligently encourage them to do all the duties.

।3.27।   While actions are being done in every way by the qualities (gunas) of nature, one who is deluded by egoism thinks that, 'I am the doer.

।3.28|   O Arjuna, one who is a knower of the varieties (divisions) of the gunas (qualities) and actions does not become attached. He knows well that it is the senses, which are moving amongst sense objects and does not identify himself with the senses.

|3.29।   Those who are wholly deluded by the gunas of Nature become attached to the activities of the gunas. These people of dull intellect should not be disturbed by the knowers.

।3.30।   Without any expectations and egoism, with full knowledge surrender all your works unto Me, and fight without any agony.

।3.31।   Those men who constantly practise this teaching of Mine with faith and without finding fault in it, are freed from actions.

।3.32।   But those fault-finding people who do not follow My teaching, who are deluded about all knoweldge and devoid of discrimination will ruin themselves.

।3.33।   Even the man of knowledge acts according to his nature; all beings follow their nature. What can restraint do?

।3.34।   Each sense has fixed attachment and aversion for its corresponding objects. These two (attachment and aversion) are the main obstacles on the path to goodness.

।3.35।   One's own duty performed with low quality is better, than the duty of another well discharged. Better is death in one's own duty; the duty of another is fraught with fear and danger.

।3.36।   O Krishna, Humans behaves against his wish, impelled and induced by some force to do cerain actions, which are not advisable. Who impells him to do these actions.

।3.37।   Lord Krishna said - It is desire and anger both born of quality of Rajas, all-devouring, all-sinful; know this as your foe.

।3.38।   As fire is enveloped by smoke, as a mirror by dirt, and as a foetus remains enclosed in the womb, so in this knowledge is shrouded by the desire.

।3.39।   O Arjuna! The wise person's pure consciousness is covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and which burns like fire.

।3.40।   Senses, mind and intellect are said to be the seat of desire; through these it deludes the humans by veiling his wisdom.

।3.41।   O Arjuna! First control your senses and then try to slay this sinful enemy in the form of desire that destroys knowledge and wisdom.

।3.42।   Senses are superior to the body; mind is superior to the senses; intellect is superior to the mind; one who is superior even to the intellect is He (the Self).

।3.43।   O Arjuna! Thus knowing the self as superior to the intellect and restraining the self by the self, slay the powerful enemy in the form of desire.