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Chapter 17 · 28 verses

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Chapter 17 · Verse 11·Spoken by Krishna

अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिर्यज्ञो विधिदृष्टो य इज्यते।यष्टव्यमेवेति मनः समाधाय स सात्त्विकः

aphalākāṅkṣhibhir yajño vidhi-driṣhṭo ya ijyate yaṣhṭavyam eveti manaḥ samādhāya sa sāttvikaḥ

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Sanskrit recitation by Swami Brahmānanda

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aphala-ākāṅkṣhibhiḥwithout expectation of any rewardyajñaḥsacrificevidhi-driṣhṭaḥthat is in accordance with the scriptural injunctionsyaḥwhichijyateis performedyaṣhṭavyam-eva-itiought to be offeredmanaḥmindsamādhāyawith convictionsaḥthatsāttvikaḥof the nature of goodness

Reading set · 5 translations · 3 commentaries

Translation · 5 voices

That sacrifice which is in accordance with the injunctions, performed by persons who do not hanker after results, and with the mental conviction that it is surely obligatory, is done through sattva.

Swami Gambiranandaafter Śaṅkara's bhāṣya· paired with Śaṅkara

The sacrifice (worship) marked by Sattva is what is offered by those who desire no fruit and have the conviction that it should be performed as prescribed in the scriptures.

Swami Adidevanandaafter Rāmānuja's bhāṣya· paired with Rāmānuja

That sacrifice of the Sattva (Strand) is offered, as prescribed, by those who desire no reward, steadying their minds with the thought that it is simply something to be offered.

Dr. S. Sankaranarayanafter Madhva's bhāṣya· paired with Madhva

That sacrifice which is offered by men without desire for reward, as enjoined by the ordinance (scripture), with a firm faith that doing so is their duty, is Sattvic or pure.

Swami SivanandaThe Bhagavad Gita

Sacrifice is pure when it is offered by one who does not covet the fruit of it, when it is done according to the commands of scripture, and with implicit faith that the sacrifice is a duty.

Shri Purohit SwamiThe Geeta

ŚaṅkarācāryaGītā-bhāṣya
Advaita Vedānta· Classical
Machine translation · draft

A sacrifice offered by people who seek no fruit from it, a sacrifice taught in the rule and laid down by scripture, performed with the mind settled in the conviction 'the sacrifice is simply to be done, carrying out its very form is the whole of the task', and with the firm resolve 'no personal end of mine is to be gained by it', is called a sacrifice of sattva.

Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.

RāmānujācāryaGītā-bhāṣya
Viśiṣṭādvaita· Classical
Machine translation · draft

The sacrifice that, by men free of the longing for fruit, is offered as the rule sees it, scripture sees it, joined with the mantra, the substance, the rite, and the rest; having settled the mind with the thought 'it is simply to be offered', that is, that it is to be offered as the worship of the Blessed One, with itself for its purpose; that sacrifice is sattvic.

Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.

MadhvācāryaGītā-bhāṣya
Dvaita· Classical
Machine translation · draft

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.

Contemporary English rendering of the Sanskrit bhāṣya, pending scholar review.