Every living being's faith conforms to the cast of its inner organ, which has been shaped by the particular dispositions it carries. If that is so, what follows? This: a person is made of his faith. The transmigrating self is, as it were, woven out of faith. Whatever a man's faith is, that is what he himself is; the self is exactly of the measure of its faith. Since this is so, one can infer a person's standing in sattva, rajas, or tamas from its visible effect, namely the kind of worship he offers.

Sattva is the inner organ; for every man faith conforms to the inner organ; with whatever qualities the inner organ is joined, faith arises bearing on those. This is the meaning. The word 'sattva' here serves to indicate also the body, the senses, and the rest spoken of before. This man is made of faith: 'made of faith' means a transformation of faith; whatever a man's faith, that very man, joined with such faith, is just that, that transformation of such faith. If he is joined with faith bearing on meritorious action, he is joined with the fruit of meritorious action; so it is said that the joining with fruit has faith for its chief thing. He unfolds that very thing.

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

'In keeping with the being' (sattva) means in keeping with the mind. Whatever a man's faith is, that very thing is he: one whose faith is sattvic is a sattvic person, and so on.