Chapter 14, Verse 6
तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम्। सुखसङ्गेन बध्नाति ज्ञानसङ्गेन चानघ।।14.6।।
tatra sattvaṃ nirmalatvāt prakāśakam anāmayam. sukhasaṅgena badhnāti jñānasaṅgena cānagha.14.6.
Word by word
- tatra
- there (among these three gunas)
- sattvam
- sattva (the quality of goodness/purity)
- nirmalatvāt
- because of being stainless/pure
- prakāśakam
- illuminating
- anāmayam
- free from disease/faultless
- sukha-saṅgena
- through attachment to happiness
- badhnāti
- binds
- jñāna-saṅgena
- through attachment to knowledge
- ca
- and
- anagha
- O sinless one (Arjuna)
Commentary
6. Of these, Sattva, which, from its stainless- ness, is lucid and healthy, binds by attachment to happiness and by attachment to knowledge, 0 sinless one.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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tatra
sattvam
nirmalatvāt
prakāśakam
anāmayam
sukha-saṅgena
badhnāti
jñāna-saṅgena
ca
anagha
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