BG 18.26
Bhagavad Gītā · Mokṣa Sanyāsa YogaupagItiमुक्तसङ्गोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः | सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योर्निर्विकारः कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ||१८-२६||
muktasaṅgo.anahaṃvādī dhṛtyutsāhasamanvitaḥ . siddhyasiddhyornirvikāraḥ kartā sāttvika ucyate ||18-26||
Linguistic facts
upagIti · 16+16 syllables
scansion (laghu/guru)
16 words analyzed
- मुक्तस्muktas← मुच्nominal · nominative singular masculine
- अङ्गस्aṅgas← अञ्जिnominal · nominative singular masculine
- अन्an← अञ्जिnominal · nominative singular masculine
- अहम्aham← अहnominal · nominative singular neuter
- वादीvādī← वद्nominal · nominative dual neuter
- धृतिdhṛti← धृnominal · locative singular masculine
- उत्साहस्utsāhas← उत्साहnominal · nominative singular masculine
- अम्am← अnominal · accusative singular masculine
- अन्वितस्anvitas← अन्विnominal · nominative plural masculine
- सिद्धिsiddhi← सिध्nominal · nominative singular neuter
- असिद्ध्योस्asiddhyos← असिद्धिnominal · genitive dual feminine
- निस्nis← निnominal · nominative singular masculine
- विकारस्vikāras← विकृnominal · nominative singular masculine
- कर्ताkartā← कृverb · periphrastic future third singular active (√kṛ)
- सात्त्विकsāttvika← सात्त्विकnominal · vocative singular neuter
- उच्यतेucyate← वच्verb · present third singular passive (√vac)
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Translations
18.26 An agent who is free from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with firmness and enthusiasm, and unaffected by success or failure, is called Sattvic (pure).
source ↗8 more attributed translations
One who performs his duty without association with the modes of material nature, without false ego, with great determination and enthusiasm, and without wavering in success or failure is said to be a worker in the mode of goodness.
18.26. 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 in failure-that agent is said to be of the Sattva (Strand) nature.
18.26 But when a man has no sentiment and no personal vanity, when he possesses courage and confidence, cares not whether he succeeds or fails, then his action arises from Purity.
18.26 See Comment under 18.28
18.26 'Muktasangah' is one who is free from attachment to fruits. 'Anahamvadi' is one who is devoid of the feeling of being the agent. He is endued with 'steadiness and zeal.' 'Steadiness' is perseverance in regard to an act that has been begun in spite of the pain that is inevitable till the completion of the work. 'Zeal' is the possession of an active mind. One who is enduded with these, and whose mind remains firm, untouched by success and failure in war etc., and also in gathering the material reisities for the work on hand - such an agent is, of Sattvika nature.
18.26 Karta, the agent; who is mukta-sangah, free from attachment-one by whom attachment has been given up; anahamvadi, not egotisic, not given to asserting his ego; dhrti-utsaha-samanvitah, endowed with fortitude and diligenc; and nirvikarah, unperturbed; siddhi-asiddhyoh, by success and failure, in the fruition and non-fruition of any action under-taken-led only by the authority of the scriptures, not by attachment to results etc. [Etc. stands for attachment to work.];-the agent who is such, he is ucyate, said to be; sattvikah, possessed of sattva.
18.26 That agent is said to be Sattvika who is free from attachment, who does not make much of himself, who is endued with steadiness and zeal and is untouched by success and failure.
18.26 [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 egotistic, endowed with fortitude and diligence, and unperturbed by success and failure is said to be possessed of sattva.
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