Bhagavad Gita As It Is

References to text BG 18.3
BG 18.3: Some learned men declare that all kinds of fruitive activities should be given up as faulty, yet other sages maintain that acts of sacriï¬ce, charity and penance should never be abandoned.

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O Lord, during the time of maintenance You manifest several incarnations, all with transcendental bodies, beyond the material modes of nature. When You appear in this way, You bestow all good fortune upon the living entities by teaching them to perform Vedic activities such as ritualistic ceremonies, mystic yoga, austerities, penances, and ultimately samÄdhi, ecstatic absorption in thoughts of You. Thus You are worshiped by the Vedic principles.
Prayers by the Demigods for Lord Krishna in the Womb
SB 10.2.34