Progress:25.0%
अर्जुन उवाच । ये शास्त्रविधिमुत्सृज्य यजन्ते श्रद्धयान्विताः । तेषां निष्ठा तु का कृष्ण सत्त्वमाहो रजस्तमः॥६-३९-१॥
Arjuna said: Those who set aside the prescriptions of śāstra yet perform worship endowed with faith—what is their orientation, O Kṛṣṇa? Is it sattva, rajas, or tamas?
english translation
श्रीभगवानुवाच । त्रिविधा भवति श्रद्धा देहिनां सा स्वभावजा । सात्त्विकी राजसी चैव तामसी चेति तां शृणु॥६-३९-२॥
The Blessed Lord said: The faith of embodied beings is threefold, arising from their own nature—sāttvika, rājasika, and tāmasika. Hear it.
english translation
सत्त्वानुरूपा सर्वस्य श्रद्धा भवति भारत । श्रद्धामयोऽयं पुरुषो यो यच्छ्रद्धः स एव सः॥६-३९-३॥
O Bhārata, each person’s faith accords with their constitutive disposition (sattva). A person is, as it were, made of faith; whatever one’s faith is, that indeed one becomes.
english translation
यजन्ते सात्त्विका देवान्यक्षरक्षांसि राजसाः । प्रेतान्भूतगणांश्चान्ये यजन्ते तामसा जनाः॥६-३९-४॥
Those of sāttvika disposition worship the devas; those of rājasa disposition worship yakṣas and rākṣasas; and others—people of tāmasa disposition—worship the departed spirits and hosts of elemental beings.
english translation
अशास्त्रविहितं घोरं तप्यन्ते ये तपो जनाः । दम्भाहंकारसंयुक्ताः कामरागबलान्विताः॥६-३९-५॥
Those people who undertake severe austerities not prescribed by authoritative teaching—motivated by hypocrisy and egoism, and driven by the force of desire and attachment—engage in such discipline.
english translation