Chapter 7, Verse 12
ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये। मत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि नत्वहं तेषु ते मयि।।7.12।।
ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasāstāmasāśca ye. matta eveti tānviddhi natvahaṃ teṣu te mayi..7.12..
Word by word
- ye
- whatever/which (plural, referring to states of being)
- ca eva
- and indeed/also
- sāttvikāḥ
- belonging to sattva (goodness/purity)
- bhāvāḥ
- states of being/dispositions/qualities
- rājasāḥ
- belonging to rajas (passion/activity)
- tāmasāḥ
- belonging to tamas (ignorance/inertia)
- ca ye
- and which (ones)
- mattaḥ
- from Me
- eva
- indeed/certainly
- iti
- thus (quotation marker)
- tān
- them
- viddhi
- know (imperative)
- na tu
- but not
- aham
- I
- teṣu
- in them
- te
- they
- mayi
- in Me
Commentary
12. And whatever beings are of Sattva or of Rajas or of Tamas, know them to proceed from Me : still, I am not in them, they are in me.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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