Bhagavad Gita Chapter 17 Verse 17
भगवद् गीता अध्याय 17 श्लोक 17

श्रद्धया परया तप्तं तपस्तत्ित्रविधं नरैः।
अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिर्युक्तैः सात्त्विकं परिचक्षते।।17.17।।



English Translation - Swami Gambirananda
17.17 When that threefold austerity is undertaken with supreme faith by people who do not hanker after results and are self-controlled, they speak of it as born of sattva.


English Translation - Swami Sivananda
17.17 This threefold austerity, practised by steadfast men, with the utmost faith, desiring no reward, they call Sattvic.


English Translation - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
17.17. This three-fold austerity, undertaken (observed) with best faith, by  men who are maters of Yoga and have no desire for its fruits-they call it to be of the Sattva.


English Commentary  - Swami Sivananda
17.17 श्रद्धया with faith? परया highest? तप्तम् practised? तपः austerity? तत् that? त्रिविधम् threefold? नरैः by men? अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिः desiring no fruit? युक्तैः steadfast? सात्त्विकम् Sattvic? परिचक्षते (they) declare.Commentary Trividham Threefold -- physical? vocal and mental.Yuktaih Steadfast Balanced in mind? unaffected in success and failure.Sraddhaya With faith With belief in the existence of God? in the words of the preceptor? in the teachings of the scriptures and in ones own Self.


English Translation of Sanskrit Commentary By Sri Shankaracharya's
17.17 When tat, that; trividham, threefold-based on three factors; tapah, austerity, which is being discussed; is taptam, undertaken, practised; paraya, with supreme, with the highest; sraddhaya, faith, belief in God and the other world; naraih, by people, by its performers; aphala-akanksibhih, who do not hanker after results,who are devoid of desire for results; and yuktaih, who are self-controlled;-that austerity which is of this kind, the noble people paricaksate, speak of it; as sattvikam, born of sattva.


English Translation of Commentary  - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
17.17 See Comment under 17.19


English Translation of Ramanuja's Sanskrit Commentary
17.17 The threefold austerity practised with supreme faith through the body, speech and mind by men who have no thoughts of any reward and who are devoted, viz., are imbued with the thought that it is the worship of the Supreme Person, they call such austerity as Sattvika.


Commentary  - Chakravarthi Ji
The three types of austerity are those of body, words, and mind (tat tri vidham).


Rudra Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary




Thus the tapah or austerities performed through the  physical  body,  speech
and  the  mind  have  been  delineated  by  Lord  Krishna.  These  threefold
austerities when practiced without any desire  for  reward  or  compensation
with great faith and steadfast determination by those devoted to  bhakti  or
exclusive loving devotion to the Supreme Lord  are  situated  completely  in
sattva guna the mode of goodness.


Brahma Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary



Shri Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary




The words aphala-akanksibhih means those who have  no  desire  for  rewards.
Those devout and evolved jivas or embodied beings  with  ardent  faith,  who
are imbued  with  the  consciousness  that  all  their  actions  are  humble
offerings of worship rendered to the Supreme Lord  Krishna  or  any  of  His
authorized incarnations and expansions  as  revealed  in  Vedic  scriptures;
performing the three aforementioned  types  of  austerity  of  the  physical
body, speech and mind are known to be in sattva guna the mode of goodness.


Kumara Vaishnava Sampradaya - Commentary
The words aphala-akanksibhih means those who have  no  desire  for  rewards.
Those devout and evolved jivas or embodied beings  with  ardent  faith,  who
are imbued  with  the  consciousness  that  all  their  actions  are  humble
offerings of worship rendered to the Supreme Lord  Krishna  or  any  of  His
authorized incarnations and expansions  as  revealed  in  Vedic  scriptures;
performing the three aforementioned  types  of  austerity  of  the  physical
body, speech and mind are known to be in sattva guna the mode of goodness.


Transliteration Bhagavad Gita 17.17Shraddhayaa parayaa taptam tapastattrividham naraih;
Aphalaakaangkshibhiryuktaih saattwikam parichakshate.


Word Meanings Bhagavad Gita 17.17śhraddhayā—with faith; parayā—transcendental; taptam—practiced; tapaḥ—austerity; tat—that; tri-vidham—three-fold; naraiḥ—by persons; aphala-ākāṅkṣhibhiḥ—without yearning for material rewards; yuktaiḥ—steadfast; sāttvikam—in the mode of goodness; parichakṣhate—are designated