O Arjuna, offering oblations, enacting charity, austerities and anything else performed without faith is declared as counter productive; not in this world nor in the next.

阿诸那啊，如果毫无信仰地进行祭祀，布施，苦行和其它活动，不仅在今生，而且在来世也不会有任何结果。

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