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Chapter 17
yajna tapasi done ca sthitih saditi cocyate
karma caiva tadarthiyam sadityevabhidhiyate
Steadfastness in sacrifice (yajna), penance and charity are also called 'Sat', as also, any action for the sake of the Supreme, is called, 'Sat'. 27
Comment:-
Yajne tapasi dane ca sthitih saditi cocyate:- Steadfastness (faith), in praiseworthy action, such as sacrifice, penance and gift etc., is called 'Sat'. So steadfastness in sattvika sacrifice, sattvika penance and sattvika gifts, alongwith, promptness in their performance, is called 'Sat Nistha (Real faith).
The term 'Ca' (and), denotes that besides steadfastness, as mentioned above, faith in selfless service, hospitality, obedience, truth, chastity, pilgrimage and performance of one's duty, according to one's caste, creed and social order etc., is known as, real faith.
Karma caiva tadarthiyam sadityevabhidhityate:- Besides these noble deeds, there are two kinds of acts - the mundane and the spiritual.
- All the acts of earning one's livelihood according to one's caste and social order, such as teaching, business and farming etc., and also eating, drinking, sitting, standing, walking, awaking and sleeping etc., are mundane.
- Meditation, adoration, utterance of the Lord's name, loud chanting and listening to the glories of the Lord, and the saints, etc., are spiritual acts.
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