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THE BHAGAVAD-GITA.

the threefold impulse to action; the organ, the action, the actor, the threefold constituents of action. (18)

ज्ञानं कर्म च कर्ता च त्रिधैव गुणभेदतः । प्रोच्यते गुणसङ्ख्याने यथावच्छृणु तान्यपि ॥ १९ ॥

Knowledge, action and actor in the category of qualities[1] are also said to be severally threefold, from the difference of qualities[1]; hear thou duly these also. (19)

सर्वभूतेषु येनैकं भावमव्ययमीक्षते । अविभक्तं विभक्तेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि सात्त्विकम् ॥ २० ॥

That by which one indestructible Being is seen in all beings, inseparate in the separated, know thou that knowledge as pure. (20)

पृथक्त्वेन तु यज्ज्ञानं नानाभावान्पृथग्विधान् । वेत्ति सर्वेषु भूतेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि राजसम् ॥ २१ ॥

But that knowledge which regardeth the


  1. 1.0 1.1 Gunas.