Sanskrit · Devanagari
अफलाङ्क्षिभिर्यज्ञो विधिदृष्टो य इज्यते। यष्टव्यमेवेति मनः समाधाय स सात्त्विकः ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
aphalāṅkṣibhiryajño vidhidṛṣṭo ya ijyate yaṣṭavyameveti manaḥ samādhāya sa sāttvikaḥ
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882stinking stale impure and even leavings are liked by the dark. That sacrifice is good which being prescribed in (scripture) ordinances is performed by persons not wishing for the fruit (of it) and after determining (in their) mind that the sacrifice must needs be performed. But when a sacrifice is performed O highest of the descendants of Bharata! with an expectation of fruit (from it)
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।17.11।। --,अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिः अफलार्थिभिः यज्ञः विधिदृष्टः शास्त्रचोदनादृष्टो यः यज्ञः इज्यते निर्वर्त्यते? यष्टव्यमेवेति यज्ञस्वरूपनिर्वर्तनमेव कार्यम् इति मनः समाधाय? न अनेन पुरुषार्थो मम कर्तव्यः इत्येवं निश्चित्य? सः सात्त्विकः यज्ञः उच्यते।।
0cafc4920e92…Rāmānuja
17.11 That sacrifice is marked by Sattva which is offered by those desiring no fruits, with the 'conviction', i.e., with the idea that it ought to be performed or that it should be offered for its own sake as worship of the Lord as enjoined in the injunctions of the Sastras, i.e., with hymns, right materials and proper rituals.
4ac58bbb6564…Swami Sivananda
17.11 अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिः by men desiring no fruit? यज्ञः sacrifice? विधिदृष्टः as enjoined by the ordinance? यः which? इज्यते is offered? यष्टव्यम् ought to be offered? एव only? इति thus? मनः the mind? समाधाय having fixed? सः that? सात्त्विकः Sattvic or pure.Commentary When a sacrifice is done with all due Sattvic rites? faith and devotion? without the least taint of desire for reward? with the mind fixed on the sacrifice only? for its own sake (for the,sake of discharging the duty only)? then it is said to be pure in its nature. Here the sacrifice is done in a disinterested spirit or with an attitude of desirelessness (Nishkamya Bhava) as an auxiliary to the attainment of the knowledge of the Self. Such selfless and desireless actions purify the mind and prepare the aspirant for the reception of divine light or knowledge of the Self. The Sattvic nature of a man forces him to do such selfless and desireless sacrifices. He does not care even for his own emancipation. He performs them with the firm belief that they ought to be done. He does them with the firm resolve that sacrifice is a duty.Yajna here is not limited to the ceremonial sacrifice. It is used in a broad sense. Any unselfish action done without attachment? without agency or egoism and without expectation of reward? as an offering unto the Lord? is a Yajna or sacrifice.
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