कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन | सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः ||१८-९||
kāryamityeva yatkarma niyataṃ kriyate.arjuna . saṅgaṃ tyaktvā phalaṃ caiva sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ ||18-9||
- kāryam
- it must be done
- iti
- thus
- eva
- indeed
- yat
- which
- karma
- work
- niyatam
- prescribed
- kriyate
- is performed
- arjuna
- O Arjuna
- saṅgam
- association
- tyaktvā
- giving up
- phalam
- the result
- ca
- also
- eva
- certainly
- saḥ
- that
- tyāgaḥ
- renunciation
- sāttvikaḥ
- in the mode of goodness
- mataḥ
- in My opinion
O Arjuna, when one performs his prescribed duty only because it ought to be done, and renounces all material association and all attachment to the fruit, his renunciation is said to be in the mode of goodness.