Sanskrit · Devanagari
अश्रद्धया हुतं दत्तं तपस्तप्तं कृतं च यत्। असदित्युच्यते पार्थ न च तत्प्रेत्य नो इह ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
aśraddhayā hutaṃ dattaṃ tapastaptaṃ kṛtaṃ ca yat asadityucyate pārtha na ca tatprepya no iha
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882whatever is given whatever penance is performed and whatever is done without faith that O son of Pṛthā! is called 'Asat,' and that is nought both after death and here.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।17.28।। --,अश्रद्धया हुतं हवनं कृतम्? अश्रद्धया दत्तं ब्राह्मणेभ्यः? अश्रद्धया तपः तप्तम् अनुष्ठितम्? तथा अश्रद्धयैव कृतं यत् स्तुतिनमस्कारादि? तत् सर्वम् असत् इति उच्यते? मत्प्राप्तिसाधनमार्गबाह्यत्वात् पार्थ। न च तत् बहुलायासमपि प्रेत्य फलाय नो अपि इहार्थम्? साधुभिः निन्दितत्वात् इति।।इति श्रीमत्परमहंसपरिव्राजकाचार्यस्य श्रीगोविन्दभगवत्पूज्यपादशिष्यस्य,श्रीमच्छंकरभगवतः कृतौ श्रीमद्भगवद्गीताभाष्येसप्तदशोऽध्यायः।।
d5815e490ff5…Rāmānuja
17.28 Offerings etc., when performed without faith, are Asat (i.e., unreal, bereft of efficiency), although they might be what has been enjoined by the Sastras. Why so? Because it is naught here or hereafter; it will not lead to release nor to any desirable result in Samsara.
0932ca6c461c…Swami Sivananda
17.28 अश्रद्धया without faith? हुतम् is sacrificed? दत्तम् given? तपः austerity? तप्तम् is practised? कृतम् performed? च and? यत् whatever? असत् Asat? इति thus? उच्यते is called? पार्थ O Partha? न not? च and? तत् that? प्रेत्य hereafter (after death)? न not? इह here.Commentary Asat That which changes form and has no permanent existence. It does not mean nonexistence as such.Acts of sacrifice? austerity and gift that are performed without faith? under pressure? or to prevent some sort of trouble or to gratify a craving? are Asat in their nature. They yield no permanent benefit or fruit to anybody.Any sacrifice? austerity or gift done without dedicating it to the Lord will be of no avail to the doer in this earthly life here or in the life beyond hereafter. It would be as useless as showers of rain falling on rocky ground or pouring oblations of ghee (clarified butter) on cold ashes. If you have no faith you will become egoistic and obstinate. Your heart will become hard. If you perform even hundreds of sacrifices without faith? without the spirit of selfsurrender to the Lord? even if you distribute the wealth of the whole world in charity without faith in and devotion to the Lord? all these would be worthless and useless. The sages will not appreciate such sacrifices or gifts. Energy? money and time are simply wasted.Thus in the Upanishads of the glorious Bhagavad Gita? the science of the Eternal? the scripture of Yoga? the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna? ends the seventeenth discourse entitledThe Yoga of the Division of the Threefold Faith. ,
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