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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• respect/honor
• esteem/reputation
• for the sake of worship/adoration
• austerity
• with ostentation/hypocrisy
• and indeed
• which
• is performed
• that
• here (in this world/context)
• is declared/said
• of the nature of rajas (passion)
• unsteady/fickle
• impermanent/unstable