एक मूल शिक्षा · चिंतनशील भाव · थोड़ा संदर्भ सहायक
“Even sacred actions differ; their inner quality decides their worth.”
आहार भी सबको तीन प्रकारका प्रिय होता है और वैसे ही यज्ञ, दान और तप भी तीन प्रकारके होते हैं अर्थात् शास्त्रीय कर्मोंमें भी तीन प्रकारकी रुचि होती है, तू उनके इस भेदको सुन ॥
श्लोक क्रम में — हर संस्कृत शब्द और नीचे उसका अर्थ। किसी शब्द पर जाकर उसे देखें।
शब्दशःfood · indeed · also · of everyone · threefold · is · dear · sacrifice · austerity · and likewise · charity · of them · difference · this · listen
Food, sacrifice, charity, and austerity all come in three kinds. Krishna asks Arjuna to listen to the differences.
यह श्लोक Krishna द्वारा कहा गया है, कुरुक्षेत्र की भूमि पर, अध्याय "श्रद्धात्रय विभाग योग" में।
श्लोक 7 भगवद् गीता के 17वें अध्याय में है — श्रद्धात्रय विभाग योग। इस अध्याय में कुल 28 श्लोक हैं।
You choose a meal, make a donation, or push through a hard practice and assume the act itself is enough. Krishna says the inner quality behind it matters just as much.
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It shifts attention from the outer form of an act to the quality of consciousness behind it.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
Food, sacrifice, charity, and austerity all come in three kinds. Krishna asks Arjuna to listen to the differences.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna is frozen, and Krishna begins explaining how even sacred acts can differ in quality. After condemning harsh, lawless austerity, he now introduces the threefold nature of food, sacrifice, charity, and discipline.
आज के जीवन में महत्व
You choose a meal, make a donation, or push through a hard practice and assume the act itself is enough. Krishna says the inner quality behind it matters just as much.
“Not every noble act has the same quality. The inner motive changes everything.”
संबंधित विषय: yajna (32 श्लोक), sattva (26 श्लोक), rajas (21 श्लोक)