17.27 Steadiness is also Sat Krishna speaks
यज्ञे तपसि दाने च स्थितिः सदिति चोच्यते
कर्म चैव तदर्थीयं सदित्येवाभिधीयते
yajñe tapasi dāne cha sthitiḥ sad iti chochyate
karma chaiva tad-arthīyaṁ sad ity evābhidhīyate
Steadiness in offering, in austerity and in giving is also called Sat; and any action for the sake of that is called Sat.
Explanation
Steadiness is also called Sat.
Steadiness in offering, austerity and giving — and any action done for the sake of that.
So the word for what truly is gets applied to persistence. The chapter has been grading single acts; here it says the thing that makes them real is that they keep happening.
Word by word
- yajñe
- in sacrifice
- tapasi
- in penance
- dāne
- in charity
- cha
- and
- sthitiḥ
- established in steadiness
- sat
- the syllable Sat
- iti
- thus
- cha
- and
- uchyate
- is pronounced
- karma
- action
- cha
- and
- eva
- indeed
- tat-arthīyam
- for such purposes
- sat
- the syllable Sat
- iti
- thus
- eva
- indeed
- abhidhīyate
- is described
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