Chapter 18, Verse 30
प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये। बन्धं मोक्षं च या वेत्ति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी।।18.30।।
pravṛttiṃ ca nivṛttiṃ ca kāryākārye bhayābhaye. bandhaṃ mokṣaṃ ca yā vetti buddhiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī.18.30.
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- प्रवृत्तिम्
- action/engagement (what should be done, activity leading to bondage or duty)
- च
- and
- निवृत्तिम्
- cessation/withdrawal (renunciation, what should not be done)
- च
- and
- कार्य-अकार्ये
- right action and wrong action (what ought and ought not to be done)
- भय-अभये
- fear and fearlessness
- बन्धम्
- bondage
- मोक्षम्
- liberation
- च
- and
- या
- which (feminine, referring to intellect/understanding)
- वेत्ति
- knows/understands
- बुद्धिः
- intellect/understanding
- सा
- that
- पार्थ
- O son of Pritha (Arjuna)
- सात्त्विकी
- is of the nature of sattva (pure, harmonious)
Commentary
30. That which knows action and inaction, what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, fear and absence of fear, bondage and libera- tion, that intellect is Sattvic, O Partha.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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प्रवृत्तिम्
च
निवृत्तिम्
च
कार्य-अकार्ये
भय-अभये
बन्धम्
मोक्षम्
च
या
वेत्ति
बुद्धिः
सा
पार्थ
सात्त्विकी
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