Bhagavad Gita · 3.31 · Path of Selfless Service·31 of 43
ये मे मतमिदं नित्यमनुतिष्ठन्ति मानवाः।श्रद्धावन्तोऽनसूयन्तो मुच्यन्ते तेऽपि कर्मभिः ॥
ye me matam idaṁ nityam anutiṣhṭhanti mānavāḥ
śhraddhāvanto ’nasūyanto muchyante te ’pi karmabhiḥ
Sanskrit recitation
Your work, not someone else’s · 3.30–3.35 · Teaching
Translation
Those who constantly practice this teaching of Mine with faith and without caviling, they too are freed from actions.
Meaning
Sraddha is a mental attitude. It means faith. It is faith in ones own Self, in the scriptures and in the teachings of the spiritual preceptor. It is compund of the higher emotion of faith, reverence and humility.
After Swami Sivananda
Your work, not someone else’s· 3.30–3.35→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 3.30Renouncing all actions in Me, with the mind centered on the Self, free from hope and egoism, and from mental fever, fight thou.
3.31Those who constantly practice this teaching of Mine with faith and without caviling, they too are freed from actions.
- 3.32But those who criticize My teaching and do not practice it, deprived of all knowledge and lacking discernment, know them to be doomed to destruction.
- 3.33Even a wise man acts in accordance with his own nature; beings will follow their nature; what can restraint do?
- 3.34Attachment and aversion for the objects of the senses abide in the senses; let no one come under their sway; for, they are his enemies.
- 3.35Better is one's own duty, though devoid of merit, than the duty of another well discharged. Better is death in one's own duty; the duty of another is fraught with fear.
Word-by-word→
- me
- my
- te
- those
- ye
- who
- api
- also
- idam
- these
- matam
- teachings
- nityam
- constantly
- muchyante
- become free
- karmabhiḥ
- from the bondage of karma
- mānavāḥ
- human beings
- anasūyantaḥ
- free from cavilling
- anutiṣhṭhanti
- abide by
- śhraddhā-vantaḥ
- with profound faith
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