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Bhagavad Gita · 17.27 · Yoga through Discerning the Three Divisions of Faith·27 of 28

यज्ञे तपसि दाने च स्थितिः सदिति चोच्यतेकर्म चैव तदर्थीयं सदित्येवाभिधीयते

yajñe tapasi dāne cha sthitiḥ sad iti chochyate

karma chaiva tad-arthīyaṁ sad ity evābhidhīyate

Sanskrit recitation

Om Tat Sat — make it true · 17.23–17.28 · Teaching

Translation

Steadfastness in sacrifice, austerity, and gift is also called 'Sat', and action in connection with these, or for the sake of the Supreme, is also called 'Sat'.

Meaning

If you perform sacrifice, austerity, gift and all actions in a spirit of total surrender to the Lord or the Eternal Being with purity and sincerity of heart, you will attain the highest goal of life or immortality, freedom and eternal bliss. If you do them in the name and for the sake of Brahman you will attain perfection and supreme peace of the Absolute.If you pin your faith on the glory and power of this name Om or Om Tat Sat, you will be freed from the bondage of birth and death. If you perform any sacrifice, austerity or charity or any action in a selfless and motiveless spirit, surrendering all the actions and their rewards to the Lord and if you utter the word Sat with faith, feeling and devotion, you will attain perfection and success in the action.Even the imperfect and nonSattvic acts of sacrifice, austerity and gift will be turned into perfect and Sattvic ones.These Sacrifice, austerity and gift.

After Swami Sivananda

Om Tat Sat — make it true· 17.23–17.28

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
cha
and
eva
indeed
iti
thus
sat
the syllable Sat
dāne
in charity
karma
action
tapasi
in penance
yajñe
in sacrifice
uchyate
is pronounced
sthitiḥ
established in steadiness
abhidhīyate
is described
tat-arthīyam
for such purposes

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