Bhagavad Gita -Sivananda 374

Shraddhayaa parayaa taptam tapastattrividham naraih;
Aphalaakaangkshibhiryuktaih saattwikam parichakshate.

17. This threefold austerity practised by steadfast men with the utmost faith, desiring no
reward, they call Sattwic.
Satkaaramaanapoojaartham tapo dambhena chaiva yat;
Kriyate tadiha proktam raajasam chalamadhruvam.

18. The austerity which is practised with the object of gaining good reception, honour and
worship and with hypocrisy, is here said to be Rajasic, unstable and transitory.

	Introduction	1
	Gita Mahatmya	7
1.	The Yoga of the Despondency of Arjuna	18
2.	Sankhya Yoga	5
3.	The Yoga of Action	80
4.	The Yoga of Wisdom	102
5.	The Yoga of Renunciation of Action	126
6.	The Yoga of Meditation	142
7.	The Yoga of Wisdom and Realisation	170
8.	The Yoga of the Imperishable Brahman	188
9.	The Yoga of the Kingly Science & the Kingly Secret	207
10.	The Yoga of the Divine Glories	227
11.	The Yoga of the Vision of the Cosmic Form	252
12.	The Yoga of Devotion	285
13.	The Yoga of Distinction Between The Field & the Knower of the Field	298
14.	The Yoga of the Division of the Three Gunas	319
15.	The Yoga of the Supreme Spirit	336
16.	The Yoga of the Division Between the Divine and the Demoniacal	349
17.	The Yoga of the Division of the Threefold Faith	364
18.	The Yoga of Liberation by Renunciation	381

Bhagavad Gita -Sivananda 374

Contents

Bhagavad Gita -Swami Sivananda

Chapter-17 : THE YOGA OF THE DIVISION OF THE THREEFOLD FAITH

Summary of Seventeenth Discourse

References and Context

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