Bhagavad Gita 17.18
सत्कारमानपूजार्थं तपो दम्भेन चैव यत्। क्रियते तदिह प्रोक्तं राजसं चलमध्रुवम्।।17.18।।
satkāramānapūjārthaṃ tapo dambhena caiva yat. kriyate tadiha proktaṃ rājasaṃ calamadhruvam.।17.18।।
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- सत्कार
- respect/honor
- मान
- esteem/reputation
- पूजा-अर्थम्
- for the sake of worship/adoration
- तपः
- austerity
- दम्भेन
- with ostentation/hypocrisy
- च एव
- and indeed
- यत्
- which
- क्रियते
- is performed
- तत्
- that
- इह
- here (in this world/context)
- प्रोक्तम्
- is declared/said
- राजसम्
- of the nature of rajas (passion)
- चलम्
- unsteady/fickle
- अध्रुवम्
- impermanent/unstable
Commentary
18. That austerity which is practised with the object of gaining good reception, honour and worship, and with hypocrisy f, is said to be of this % world, to be Rajasic, unstable and uncertain.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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