Shraddhatraya Vibhaga Yoga

Three kinds of faith. Three kinds of food. Three kinds of sacrifice and giving. The Gita on what your daily choices reveal about you.

All 28 verses below.

Verses

• 17.1Faith alone does not reveal its quality; the motive beneath it does.
• 17.2Faith takes the shape of the nature beneath it.
• 17.3Trust is not just held; it becomes the person.
• 17.4Faith reveals itself in what each person chooses to revere.
• 17.5Harsh effort without right guidance can deepen ego instead of cleansing it.
• 17.6Harshness is not holiness when it destroys the body and ignores what lives within.
• 17.7Even sacred actions differ; their inner quality decides their worth.
• 17.8Wholesome food quietly builds the conditions for a steadier life.
• 17.9What excites the senses can quietly produce suffering.
• 17.10What you repeatedly choose to consume reveals the heaviness within.
• 17.11Right action becomes pure when reward stops being the reason.
• 17.12An offering for reward or applause loses its purity.
• 17.13Ritual without trust becomes empty and heavy.
• 17.14The body itself can become a disciplined offering.
• 17.15Speech becomes discipline when it tells the truth without creating harm.
• 17.16A trained mind is its own austerity.
• 17.17True discipline is clean only when reward is no longer the motive.
• 17.18Practice for applause collapses into instability.
• 17.19Pain imposed in ignorance only deepens confusion.
• 17.20Giving becomes pure when nothing is being bought in return.
• 17.21A gift becomes lesser the moment it starts asking for something back.
• 17.22A gift can become degrading when respect is missing.
• 17.23Sacred action matters because it points beyond itself to what is real.
• 17.24Sacred action begins by naming the supreme reality first.
• 17.25Freedom deepens when action stops demanding a private return.
• 17.26What is real and worthy carries the mark of sat.
• 17.27Steady offering makes ordinary action sacred.
• 17.28Trust is what makes action real; without it, effort becomes empty.