Chapter 18, Verse 9
कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन। सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः।।18.9।।
kāryam ityeva yat karma niyataṃ kriyate'rjuna. saṅgaṃ tyaktvā phalaṃ caiva sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ.18.9.
Word by word
- kāryam
- (it is) to be done/duty
- iti eva
- thus indeed (thinking)
- yat karma
- whatever action
- niyatam
- prescribed/obligatory
- kriyate
- is performed
- arjuna
- O Arjuna
- saṅgam
- attachment
- tyaktvā
- having abandoned
- phalam
- the fruit/result
- ca eva
- and also
- saḥ tyāgaḥ
- that renunciation
- sāttvikaḥ
- of the nature of sattva (pure/good)
- mataḥ
- is considered/held to be
Commentary
9 Whatever obligatory work is done, by Arjuna, merely because it ought to be done, by abandoning attachment and also the fruit, that abandonment is deemed to be Sattvic.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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kāryam
iti eva
yat karma
niyatam
kriyate
arjuna
saṅgam
tyaktvā
phalam
ca eva
saḥ tyāgaḥ
sāttvikaḥ
mataḥ
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