Bhagavad Gita
Threefold Faith
Śraddhātraya Vibhāga Yoga
Faith, worship, food, austerity, and giving are considered through the three guṇas.
What this chapter does
Arjuna asks about people who worship with faith while setting aside scriptural rule, and the reply divides faith according to the three qualities: sattva, rajas, and tamas. Faith is said to arise from one’s nature and to shape the person, appearing in the beings one worships and in harsh, unscriptural austerities. Food, sacrifice, bodily, verbal and mental austerity, and giving are each distinguished by motive, manner, and quality. The chapter then explains the use of om, tat, and sat in sacrifice, austerity, and giving, and ends by calling acts done without faith unreal and fruitless here or after death.
- 01Arjuna asks about unruled faithful worship
- 02Faith follows the three qualities
- 03Practices are classified by quality
- 04Om, tat, sat consecrate acts
- 05Faithless acts are called unreal
- Opens
- Arjuna asks about worship performed faithfully without scriptural rule.
- Closes
- It ends with faithless acts yielding nothing here or after death.
About this edition
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GRETIL Śaṅkara Bhāṣya source. Chapter 18 is absent. Verse 3.4 is present with a spaced source marker, and chapter 13 has a source-marker numbering anomaly.
atha śraddhā-traya-vibhāga-yogaḥ saptadaśo 'dhyāyaḥ
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