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deśe kāle ca pātre ca taddānaṁ sāttvikaṁ smṛtam — The sattwic way of giving is to do it for the sake of the giving and the beneficence and…
17·21दीयते च परिक्लिष्टं तद्दानं राजसं स्मृतम् ॥dīyate ca parikliṣṭaṁ taddānaṁ rājasaṁ smṛtam — The rajasic kind of giving is that which is done with unwillingness or violence to oneself…
17·22अदेशकाले यद्दानमपात्रेभ्यश्च दीयते ।adeśakāle yaddānamapātrebhyaśca dīyate — The tamasic gift is offered with no consideration of the right conditions of time, place…
17·23ब्राह्मणास्तेन वेदाश्च यज्ञाश्च विहिताः पुरा ॥brāhmaṇāstena vedāśca yajñāśca vihitāḥ purā — The formula OM Tat Sat, is the triple definition of the Brahman, by whom the Brahmanas…
17·25दानक्रियाश्च विविधाः क्रियन्ते मोक्षकाङ्क्षिभिः ॥dānakriyāśca vividhāḥ kriyante mokṣakāṅkṣibhiḥ — With the pronunciation of Tat and without desire of fruit are performed the various acts…
17·26सद्भावे साधुभावे च सदित्येतत्प्रयुज्यते ।प्रशस्ते कर्मणि तथा सच्छब्दः पार्थ युज्यते ॥
sadbhāve sādhubhāve ca sadityetatprayujyate — Sat means good and it means existence; likewise, O Partha, the word Sat is used in the…
17·27यज्ञे तपसि दाने च स्थितिः सदिति चोच्यते ।कर्म चैव तदर्थीयं सदित्येवाभिधीयते ॥
yajñe tapasi dāne ca sthitiḥ saditi cocyate — All firm abiding in sacrifice, giving and askesis and all works done with that central…
17·28अश्रद्धया हुतं दत्तं तपस्तप्तं कृतं च यत् ।असदित्युच्यते पार्थ न च तत्प्रेत्य नो इह ॥
aśraddhayā hutaṁ dattaṁ tapastaptaṁ kṛtaṁ ca yat — Whatever is wrought without faith, oblation, giving, askesis or other work, Asat it is…
18·1अर्जुन उवाचसंन्यासस्य महाबाहो तत्त्वमिच्छामि वेदितुम् ।त्यागस्य च हृषीकेश पृथक्केशिनिषूदन ॥
saṁnyāsasya mahābāho tattvamicchāmi veditum — I desire, O mighty-armed, to know the principle of Sannyasa and the principle of Tyaga, O…
18·2श्रीभगवानुवाचसर्वकर्मफलत्यागं प्राहुस्त्यागं विचक्षणाः ॥sarvakarmaphalatyāgaṁ prāhustyāgaṁ vicakṣaṇāḥ — Sages have known as Sannyasa the physical depositing (or laying aside) of desirable…
18·3यज्ञदानतपःकर्म न त्याज्यमिति चापरे ॥yajñadānatapaḥkarma na tyājyamiti cāpare — “All action should be relinquished as an evil”, declare some learned men; “acts of…
18·4निश्चयं शृणु मे तत्र त्यागे भरतसत्तम ।niścayaṁ śṛṇu me tatra tyāge bharatasattama — Hear my conclusions as to renunciation (Tyaga), O best of the Bharatas; since renunciation…
18·5यज्ञो दानं तपश्चैव पावनानि मनीषिणाम् ॥yajño dānaṁ tapaścaiva pāvanāni manīṣiṇām — Acts of sacrifice, giving and askesis ought not to be renounced at all, but should be…
18·6एतान्यपि तु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलानि च ।कर्तव्यानीति मे पार्थ निश्चितं मतमुत्तमम् ॥
etānyapi tu karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā phalāni ca — Even these actions certainly ought to be done, O Partha, leaving aside attachment and…
18·9सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः ॥saṅgaṁ tyaktvā phalaṁ caiva sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ — He who performs a rightly regulated action, because it has to be done, without any…
18·10त्यागी सत्त्वसमाविष्टो मेधावी छिन्नसंशयः ॥tyāgī sattvasamāviṣṭo medhāvī chinnasaṁśayaḥ — The wise man with doubts cast away, who renounces in the light of the full sattwic mind…
18·12अनिष्टमिष्टं मिश्रं च त्रिविधं कर्मणः फलम् ।भवत्यत्यागिनां प्रेत्य न तु संन्यासिनां क्वचित् ॥
aniṣṭamiṣṭaṁ miśraṁ ca trividhaṁ karmaṇaḥ phalam — The three kinds of result, pleasant, unpleasant and mixed, in this or other worlds, in…
18·13पञ्चैतानि महाबाहो कारणानि निबोध मे ।pañcaitāni mahābāho kāraṇāni nibodha me — These five causes, O mighty-armed, learn of Me as laid down by the Sankhya for the…
18·14अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम् ।विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम् ॥
adhiṣṭhānaṁ tathā kartā karaṇaṁ ca pṛthagvidham — These five are the body, the doer, the various instruments, the many kinds of efforts, and…
18·15न्याय्यं वा विपरीतं वा पञ्चैते तस्य हेतवः ॥nyāyyaṁ vā viparītaṁ vā pañcaite tasya hetavaḥ — These five elements make up among them all the efficient causes, that determine the…
18·18ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं परिज्ञाता त्रिविधा कर्मचोदना ।jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ parijñātā trividhā karmacodanā — Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower, these three things constitute the…
18·19ज्ञानं कर्म च कर्ता च त्रिधैव गुणभेदतः ।प्रोच्यते गुणसङ्ख्याने यथावच्छृणु तान्यपि ॥
jñānaṁ karma ca kartā ca tridhaiva guṇabhedataḥ — Knowledge, work and doer are of three kinds, says the Sankhya, according to the difference…
18·22अतत्त्वार्थवदल्पं च तत्तामसमुदाहृतम् ॥atattvārthavadalpaṁ ca tattāmasamudāhṛtam — The tamasic knowledge is a small and narrow way of looking at things which has no eye for…
18·23अफलप्रेप्सुना कर्म यत्तत्सात्त्विकमुच्यते ॥aphalaprepsunā karma yattatsāttvikamucyate — An action which is rightly regulated, performed without attachment, without liking or…
18·25अनुबन्धं क्षयं हिंसामनवेक्ष्य च पौरुषम् ।मोहादारभ्यते कर्म यत्तत्तामसमुच्यते ॥
anubandhaṁ kṣayaṁ hiṁsāmanavekṣya ca pauruṣam — The action undertaken from delusion (in mechanical obedience to the instincts, impulsions…
18·26सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योर्निर्विकारः कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥siddhyasiddhyornirvikāraḥ kartā sāttvika ucyate — Free from attachment, free from egoism, full of a fixed (impersonal) resolution and a calm…
18·27रागी कर्मफलप्रेप्सुर्लुब्धो हिंसात्मकोऽशुचिः ।rāgī karmaphalaprepsurlubdho hiṁsātmako’śuciḥ — Eagerly attached to the work, passionately desirous of fruit, greedy, impure, often…
18·28विषादी दीर्घसूत्री च कर्ता तामस उच्यते ॥viṣādī dīrghasūtrī ca kartā tāmasa ucyate — One who acts with a mechanical mind (who does not put himself really into the work), is…
18·29बुद्धेर्भेदं धृतेश्चैव गुणतस्त्रिविधं शृणु ।प्रोच्यमानमशेषेण पृथक्त्वेन धनञ्जय ॥
buddherbhedaṁ dhṛteścaiva guṇatastrividhaṁ śṛṇu — Reason as also persistence are of three kinds according to the qualities; hear them…
18·30प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये ।बन्धं मोक्षं च या वेत्ति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी ॥
pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca kāryākārye bhayābhaye — That which sees the law of action and the law of abstention from action, the thing that is…
18·31यया धर्ममधर्मं च कार्यं चाकार्यमेव च ।yayā dharmamadharmaṁ ca kāryaṁ cākāryameva ca — That by which one knows awry right and wrong and also what should or should not be done…
18·32सर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी ॥sarvārthānviparītāṁśca buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī — That which, enveloped in darkness, takes what is not the true law and upholds it as the…
18·33योगेनाव्यभिचारिण्या धृतिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी ॥yogenāvyabhicāriṇyā dhṛtiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī — That unwavering persistence by which, through Yoga, One controls the mind, the senses and…
18·35यया स्वप्नं भयं शोकं विषादं मदमेव च ।न विमुञ्चति दुर्मेधा धृतिः सा पार्थ तामसी ॥
yayā svapnaṁ bhayaṁ śokaṁ viṣādaṁ madameva ca — That by which one from ignorance doth not abandon sleep, fear, grief, depression, and also…
18·36अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति ॥abhyāsādramate yatra duḥkhāntaṁ ca nigacchati — And now the threefold kinds of pleasure hear thou from Me, O bull of the Bharatas. That in…
18·39यदग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनमात्मनः ।yadagre cānubandhe ca sukhaṁ mohanamātmanaḥ — That pleasure of which delusion is the beginning and delusion is the consequence, which…
18·41ब्राह्मणक्षत्रियविशां शूद्राणां च परन्तप ।brāhmaṇakṣatriyaviśāṁ śūdrāṇāṁ ca parantapa — The works of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras are divided according to the…
18·42शमो दमस्तपः शौचं क्षान्तिरार्जवमेव च ।śamo damastapaḥ śaucaṁ kṣāntirārjavameva ca — Calm, self-control, askesis, purity, long-suffering, candour, knowledge, acceptance of…
18·43शौर्यं तेजो धृतिर्दाक्ष्यं युद्धे चाप्यपलायनम् ।दानमीश्वरभावश्च क्षात्रं कर्म स्वभावजम् ॥
śauryaṁ tejo dhṛtirdākṣyaṁ yuddhe cāpyapalāyanam — Heroism, high spirit, resolution, ability, not fleeing in the battle, giving, lordship…
18·44परिचर्यात्मकं कर्म शूद्रस्यापि स्वभावजम् ॥paricaryātmakaṁ karma śūdrasyāpi svabhāvajam — Agriculture, cattle-keeping, trade inclusive of the labour of the craftsman and the…
18·45स्वकर्मनिरतः सिद्धिं यथा विन्दति तच्छृणु ॥svakarmanirataḥ siddhiṁ yathā vindati tacchṛṇu — A man who is intent on his own natural work attains perfection. Listen thou how perfection…
18·46स्वकर्मणा तमभ्यर्च्य सिद्धिं विन्दति मानवः ॥svakarmaṇā tamabhyarcya siddhiṁ vindati mānavaḥ — He from whom all beings originate, by whom all this universe is pervaded, by worshipping…
18·49नैष्कर्म्यसिद्धिं परमां संन्यासेनाधिगच्छति ॥naiṣkarmyasiddhiṁ paramāṁ saṁnyāsenādhigacchati — An understanding without attachment in all things, a soul self-conquered and empty of…
18·51बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्यात्मानं नियम्य च ।शब्दादीन्विषयांस्त्यक्त्वा रागद्वेषौ व्युदस्य च ॥
buddhyā viśuddhayā yukto dhṛtyātmānaṁ niyamya ca — Uniting the purified intelligence (with the pure spiritual substance in us), controlling…
18·53विमुच्य निर्ममः शान्तो ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते ॥vimucya nirmamaḥ śānto brahmabhūyāya kalpate — Having put away egoism, violence, arrogance, desire, wrath, the sense and instinct of…
18·54ब्रह्मभूतः प्रसन्नात्मा न शोचति न काङ्क्षति ।brahmabhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati — When one has become the Brahman, when one, serene in the Self, neither grieves nor…
18·55भक्त्या मामभिजानाति यावान्यश्चास्मि तत्त्वतः ।bhaktyā māmabhijānāti yāvānyaścāsmi tattvataḥ — By devotion he comes to know Me, who and how much I am and in all the reality and…
18·57चेतसा सर्वकर्माणि मयि संन्यस्य मत्परः ।बुद्धियोगमुपाश्रित्य मच्चित्तः सततं भव ॥
cetasā sarvakarmāṇi mayi saṁnyasya matparaḥ — Devoting all thyself to Me, giving up in thy conscious mind all thy actions into Me…
18·58मच्चित्तः सर्वदुर्गाणि मत्प्रसादात्तरिष्यसि ।अथ चेत्त्वमहङ्कारान्न श्रोष्यसि विनङ्क्ष्यसि ॥
maccittaḥ sarvadurgāṇi matprasādāttariṣyasi — If thou art one in heart and consciousness with Me at all times, then by My grace thou…
18·60कर्तुं नेच्छसि यन्मोहात्करिष्यस्यवशोऽपि तत् ॥kartuṁ necchasi yanmohātkariṣyasyavaśopi tat — What from delusion thou desirest not to do, O Kaunteya, that helplessly thou shalt do…
