18.30 प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये।बन्धं मोक्षं च या वेत्ति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी
pravṛttiṃ ca nivṛttiṃ ca kāryākārye bhayābhaye | bandhaṃ mokṣaṃ ca yā vetti buddhiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī
Word meanings
pravṛittim—activities;cha—and;nivṛittim—renuncation from action;cha—and;kārya—proper action;akārye—improper action;bhaya—fear;abhaye—without fear;bandham—what is binding;mokṣham—what is liberating;cha—and;yā—which;vetti—understands;buddhiḥ—intellect;sā—that;pārtha—son of Pritha;sāttvikī—in the nature of goodness
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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My Personal Gita
The intellect which knows the activity and the cessation from activity, the proper and improper actions, the fear and non-fear, and the bondage and emancipation—that intellect is considered to be of the Sattva (Strand).
That intellect which understands the creation and dissolution of life, what actions should be done and what not, which discriminates between fear and fearlessness, bondage and deliverance, that is Pure.
That Buddhi, O Arjuna, which knows activity and renunciation, what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, fear and fearlessness, bondage and release - that (Buddhi) is Sattvika.
O Partha, that intellect is born of sattva which understands action and withdrawal, duty and what is not duty, the sources of fear and fearlessness, and bondage and freedom.
That which knows the path of work and renunciation, what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, fear and fearlessness, bondage and liberation–that intellect is Sattwic, O Arjuna!
