प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये | बन्धं मोक्षं च या वेत्ति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी ||१८-३०||
pravṛttiṃ ca nivṛttiṃ ca kāryākārye bhayābhaye . bandhaṃ mokṣaṃ ca yā vetti buddhiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī ||18-30||
- pravṛttim
- doing
- ca
- also
- nivṛttim
- not doing
- ca
- and
- kārya
- what ought to be done
- akārye
- and what ought not to be done
- bhaya
- fear
- abhaye
- and fearlessness
- bandham
- bondage
- mokṣam
- liberation
- ca
- and
- yā
- that which
- vetti
- knows
- buddhiḥ
- understanding
- sā
- that
- pārtha
- O son of Pṛthā
- sāttvikī
- in the mode of goodness
O son of Pṛthā, that understanding by which one knows what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, what is to be feared and what is not to be feared, what is binding and what is liberating, is in the mode of goodness.