Bhagavad Gita 18.26 Meaning: Muktasangonahanvadi

Bhagavad Gita 18.26

मुक्तसङ्गोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः ।सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योर्निर्विकारः कर्त्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥

Muktasangonahanvadi dhrityutsahasamanvitahSiddhyasiddhyornirvikarah kartta sattvika uchyate

muktasaṅgo’nahaṃvādī dhṛtyutsāhasamanvitaḥ |siddhyasiddhyornirvikāraḥ karttā sāttvika ucyate ||

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Our explanation Krishna says a doer is called sāttvika, of the nature of sattva, when he has let go of attachment, does not talk proudly about himself, has firmness and zeal, and is not shaken by success or failure.

हिंदी अर्थ कृष्ण कहते हैं कि जो कर्ता आसक्ति से मुक्त है, अहंकार की बातें नहीं करता, धैर्य और उत्साह से युक्त है, और सफलता-असफलता में एक-सा रहता है, वह सात्त्विक कर्ता कहलाता है।

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मुक्तसङ्गः muktasaṅgaḥ · free from attachment (compound (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: mukta, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 820, col. 3 “liberated, delivered, emancipated (esp. from sin or worldly existence)”; saṅga, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1132, col. 3 “(esp.) worldly or selfish attachment or affection, desire, wish, cupidity”
अनहंवादी anahaṃvādī · not speaking of "I" (compound (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: 3. a, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1, col. 1 “having a negative or privative or contrary sense”; aham, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 124, col. 2 “nom. sg. ‘I,’”; vādin, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 940, col. 1 “saying, discoursing, speaking, talking, speaking or talking about”
धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः dhṛtyutsāhasamanvitaḥ · with steadiness and zeal (compound (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: dhṛti, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 519, col. 3 “firmness, constancy, resolution, will, command”; ut-sāha, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 182, col. 1 “strength of will, resolution; effort, perseverance”; sam-anvita, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1155, col. 2 “connected or associated with, completely possessed of, fully endowed with”
सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः siddhyasiddhyoḥ · in success and failure (compound (feminine), locative dual) Dictionary: 2. siddhi, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1216, col. 2 “accomplishment, performance, fulfilment, complete attainment (of any object), success”; a-siddhi, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 120, col. 3 “imperfect accomplishment, failure”
निर्विकारः nirvikāraḥ · unchanged (compound (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: nir-vikāra, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 542, col. 1 “unchanged, unchangeable, uniform, normal”
कर्त्ता karttā · doer (noun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: kartṛ, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 257, col. 3 “one who makes or does or acts or effects, a doer, maker, agent, author”
सात्त्विकः sāttvikaḥ · of sattva (adjective (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: sāttvika, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1200, col. 1 “relating to or endowed with the quality Sattva (i.e. ‘purity’ or ‘goodness’)”
उच्यते ucyate · is called (present passive, 3rd person singular) Dictionary: vac, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 912, col. 1 “to be called or accounted, be regarded as, pass for”

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Spelling A digital text reads Same word. The 1922 edition prints कर्त्ता with a doubled t here (leaf n255), as some printings of the period do; elsewhere in the chapter it prints कर्ता. Another digital text also reads kartā.

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