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jñānaḿ jñeyaḿ parijñātā tri-vidhā karma-codanā karaṇaḿ karma karteti tri-vidhaḥ karma-sańgrahaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.18 Knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the knower are the three factors that motivate...

jñānaḿ karma ca kartā ca tridhaiva guṇa-bhedataḥ procyate guṇa-sańkhyāne yathāvac chṛṇu tāny api Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.19 According to the three different modes of material nature, there are three kinds of...

sarva-bhūteṣu yenaikaḿ bhāvam avyayam īkṣate avibhaktaḿ vibhakteṣu taj jñānaḿ viddhi sāttvikam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.20 That knowledge by which one undivided spiritual nature is seen in all living entities,...

pṛthaktvena tu yaj jñānaḿ nānā-bhāvān pṛthag-vidhān vetti sarveṣu bhūteṣu taj jñānaḿ viddhi rājasam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.21 That knowledge by which one sees that in every different body there is a different type...

yat tu kṛtsna-vad ekasmin kārye saktam ahaitukam atattvārtha-vad alpaḿ ca tat tāmasam udāhṛtam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.22 And that knowledge by which one is attached to one kind of work as the all in all, without...

niyataḿ sańga-rahitam arāga-dveṣataḥ kṛtam aphala-prepsunā karma yat tat sāttvikam ucyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.23 That action which is regulated and which is performed without attachment, without love or hatred,...

yat tu kāmepsunā karma sāhańkāreṇa vā punaḥ kriyate bahulāyāsaḿ tad rājasam udāhṛtam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.24 But action performed with great effort by one seeking to gratify his desires, and enacted from a sense...

anubandhaḿ kṣayaḿ hiḿsām anapekṣya ca pauruṣam mohād ārabhyate karma yat tat tāmasam ucyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.25 That action performed in illusion, in disregard of scriptural injunctions, and without concern...

mukta-sańgo ’nahaḿ-vādī dhṛty-utsāha-samanvitaḥ siddhy-asiddhyor nirvikāraḥ kartā sāttvika ucyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.26 One who performs his duty without association with the modes of material nature, without...

rāgī karma-phala-prepsur lubdho hiḿsātmako ’śuciḥ harṣa-śokānvitaḥ kartā rājasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.27 The worker who is attached to work and the fruits of work, desiring to enjoy those fruits,...