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मुक्तसङ्गोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः । सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योर्निर्विकारः कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते॥६-४०-२६॥
An agent who is free from attachment, not self-assertive, endowed with steadiness and initiative, and unchanged in success and failure, is called sāttvika.
english translation
रागी कर्मफलप्रेप्सुर्लुब्धो हिंसात्मकोऽशुचिः । हर्षशोकान्वितः कर्ता राजसः परिकीर्तितः॥६-४०-२७॥
An agent driven by craving, seeking the fruits of action, greedy, inclined to harm, impure in conduct, and swayed by elation and grief, is described as rājasa.
english translation
अयुक्तः प्राकृतः स्तब्धः शठो नैकृतिकोऽलसः । विषादी दीर्घसूत्री च कर्ता तामस उच्यते॥६-४०-२८॥
An agent who is undisciplined, coarse-minded, obstinate, deceitful, malicious, indolent, despondent, and procrastinating is called tāmasa.
english translation
बुद्धेर्भेदं धृतेश्चैव गुणतस्त्रिविधं शृणु । प्रोच्यमानमशेषेण पृथक्त्वेन धनंजय॥६-४०-२९॥
Hear, O Dhanaṃjaya, the threefold division—according to the guṇas—of understanding (buddhi) and of resolve (dhṛti), which I shall explain fully and distinctly.
english translation
प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये । बन्धं मोक्षं च या वेत्ति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी॥६-४०-३०॥
That understanding, O Pārtha, which knows engagement and withdrawal, what ought and ought not to be done, fear and fearlessness, and bondage and liberation—that understanding is sāttvika.
english translation