Bhagavad Gita · 17.27 · Yoga through Discerning the Three Divisions of Faith·27 of 28
यज्ञे तपसि दाने च स्थितिः सदिति चोच्यते।कर्म 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.
- 17.23"Om Tat Sat": This has been declared to be the triple designation of Brahman. By that, the Brahmanas, the Vedas, and the sacrifices were created formerly.
- 17.24Therefore, with the utterance of "Om," the acts of sacrifice, gift, and austerity, as enjoined in the scriptures, are always begun by the students of Brahman.
- 17.25Uttering "Tat," without aiming for the fruits, are the acts of sacrifice, austerity, and the various acts of gifts performed by those seeking liberation.
- 17.26The word "Sat" is used to refer to reality and goodness; likewise, O Arjuna, the word "Sat" is used to refer to an auspicious act.
17.27Steadfastness 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'.
- 17.28Whatever is sacrificed, given, or performed, and whatever austerity is practiced without faith, it is called 'Asat', O Arjuna; it is of no value here or hereafter (after death).
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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