Chapter 14, Verse 5
सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः। निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्।।14.5।।
sattvaṃ rajastama iti guṇāḥ prakṛtisaṃbhavāḥ. nibadhnanti mahābāho dehe dehinamavyayam.।।14.5।।
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- सत्त्वम्
- sattva (the quality of goodness/purity)
- रजः
- rajas (the quality of passion/activity)
- तमः
- tamas (the quality of darkness/inertia)
- इति
- thus (naming these three)
- गुणाः
- the qualities/strands (nominative plural)
- प्रकृतिसंभवाः
- born of material nature
- निबध्नन्ति
- they bind
- महाबाहो
- O mighty-armed one (Arjuna, vocative)
- देहे
- in the body (locative)
- देहिनम्
- the embodied soul (accusative)
- अव्ययम्
- imperishable/eternal
Commentary
5. Sattva, Rajas, Tamas, — these gu^as, O mighty-armed, born of Praknti, bind fast in the body the embodied, the indestructible.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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सत्त्वम्
रजः
तमः
इति
गुणाः
प्रकृतिसंभवाः
निबध्नन्ति
महाबाहो
देहे
देहिनम्
अव्ययम्
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