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Adhyāyas / Śraddhātraya-Vibhāga Yogaḥ / verse 2

Mūla — the verse

Gita Press numbering
श्री भगवानुवाच त्रिविधा भवति श्रद्धा देहिनां सा स्वभावजा। सात्त्विकी राजसी चैव तामसी चेति तां श्रृणु
śhrī-bhagavān uvācha tri-vidhā bhavati śhraddhā dehināṁ sā svabhāva-jā sāttvikī rājasī chaiva tāmasī cheti tāṁ śhṛiṇu
Anuṣṭubh

Translation

Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣya

The Blessed Lord said, "That faith of the embodied beings, born of their own nature, is threefold—born of sattva, rajas, and tamas. Hear about it."

हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda

श्री भगवान् ने कहा -- देहधारियों (मनुष्यों) की वह स्वाभाविक (ज्ञानरहित) श्रद्धा तीन प्रकार की - सात्त्विक, राजसिक और तामसिक - होती हैं, उसे तुम मुझसे सुनो।।

Pronunciation — Vaamshii

from Vaamshii
त्रिविधा भवति श्रद् धा
देहि नाम् सा स्वभावजा
सात् विकी राजसी चैव
तामसी चेति ताम् शृणु
॥ २ ॥
Read each split group as one breath-unit; hyphens join pādas kept whole for the meter or a compound word. Symbols: # upadhmānīya (visarga before p/ph), % jihvāmūlīya (visarga before k/kh), ऽ avagraha (an elided a). Full method →

Word by word

padārtha
śhrī-bhagavān uvāchathe Supreme Personality said
tri-vidhāof three kinds
bhavatiis
śhraddhāfaith
dehināmembodied beings
sāwhich
sva-bhāva-jāborn of one’s innate nature
sāttvikīof the mode of goodness
rājasīof the mode of passion
chaand
evacertainly
tāmasīof the mode of ignorance
chaand
itithus
tāmabout this
śhṛiṇuhear

Themes

from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad Gītā
GuṇaSāṅkhya

Meaning — Questions & Solutions

from Q&A with KnA
17.2The three aspects of faith.

“The faith of the embodied is threefold, born of their own nature (svabhāva-jā) — sattvic, rajasic and tamasic.” This is the master-key. Faith is not a single thing that one either has or lacks; it takes the colour of the guṇa dominant in the person. So the answer to 17.1 is not “faith saves all” nor “faith saves none”, but “it depends which faith”. Sincere faith arising from a sattvic nature is worlds apart from “faith” that is really fear, or vanity, or superstition. The chapter’s whole method is to teach the reader to read the guṇa behind any devotion — his own first of all.