Bhagavad Gita 18.26

18.26मुक्तसङ्गोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः।सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योर्निर्विकारः कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते[Ast. introduces this verse with 'Idanim kartrbhedah ucyate, Now is being stated the distinctions among the agents.'-Tr.] The agent who is free from attachment [Attachment to results or the idea of agentship.], not egotistical, endowed with fortitude and diligence, and unperturbed by success and failure is said to be possessed of sattva.

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Chapter 18 · Verse 26·Spoken by Krishna

मुक्तसङ्गोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः।सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योर्निर्विकारः कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते

mukta-saṅgo ‘nahaṁ-vādī dhṛity-utsāha-samanvitaḥ siddhy-asiddhyor nirvikāraḥ kartā sāttvika uchyate

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mukta-saṅgaḥfree from worldly attachmentanaham-vādīfree from egodhṛitistrong resolveutsāhazealsamanvitaḥendowed withsiddhi-asiddhyoḥin success and failurenirvikāraḥunaffectedkartāworkersāttvikaḥin the mode of goodnessuchyateis said to be

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[Ast. introduces this verse with 'Idanim kartrbhedah ucyate, Now is being stated the distinctions among the agents.'-Tr.] The agent who is free from attachment [Attachment to results or the idea of agentship.], not egotistical, endowed with fortitude and diligence, and unperturbed by success and failure is said to be possessed of sattva.

Swami Gambiranandaafter Śaṅkara's bhāṣya· paired with Śaṅkara

That agent is said to be Sattvika, who is free from attachment, who does not boast of himself, who is endowed with steadiness and zeal, and who is unaffected by success and failure.

Swami Adidevanandaafter Rāmānuja's bhāṣya· paired with Rāmānuja

The agent who is free from attachment, who does not make any speech of egoism, who is full of contentment and enthusiasm, and who does not change mentally in success or failure—that agent is said to be of the Sattva nature.

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

An agent who is free from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with firmness and enthusiasm, and unaffected by success or failure, is considered to be of a Sattvic (pure) nature.

Swami SivanandaThe Bhagavad Gita

But when a person has no sentiment or ego, when they possess courage and confidence, not caring whether they succeed or fail, then their action arises from purity.

Shri Purohit SwamiThe Geeta

ŚaṅkarācāryaGītā-bhāṣya

Advaita Vedānta· Classical

Machine translation · draft

The doer who is free of attachment, who does not speak of himself as 'I', who is endowed with steadiness and zeal, steadiness being firmness, zeal being effort, and unmoved in the success or failure of the action being done, that is, undisturbed whether its fruit is gained or not, set going solely by the authority of scripture and not by longing for fruit and the rest; such a doer is called of sattva.

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

RāmānujācāryaGītā-bhāṣya

Viśiṣṭādvaita· Classical

Machine translation · draft

Free of attachment, free of attachment to fruit; not speaking of himself as 'I', free of the conceit of agency; joined with constancy and zeal: in the action begun, the bearing of the pain unavoidable until the completion of the action is constancy, and zeal is the having of a mind set going; joined with those two; unchanged in success and failure: in action such as war, and in the gaining of the substances and the rest that are its means, of unchanged mind in success and failure; such a doer is called 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.

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