यया तु धर्मकामार्थान्धृत्या धारयतेऽर्जुन | प्रसङ्गेन फलाकाङ्क्षी धृतिः सा पार्थ राजसी ||१८-३४||
yayā tu dharmakāmārthāndhṛtyā dhārayate.arjuna . prasaṅgena phalākāṅkṣī dhṛtiḥ sā pārtha rājasī ||18-34||
- yayā
- by which
- tu
- but
- dharma
- religiosity
- kāma
- sense gratification
- arthān
- and economic development
- dhṛtyā
- by determination
- dhārayate
- one sustains
- arjuna
- O Arjuna
- prasaṅgena
- because of attachment
- phala-ākāṅkṣī
- desiring fruitive results
- dhṛtiḥ
- determination
- sā
- that
- pārtha
- O son of Pṛthā
- rājasī
- in the mode of passion
But that determination by which one holds fast to fruitive results in religion, economic development and sense gratification is of the nature of passion, O Arjuna.