जञानं कर्म च कर्ता च तरिधैव गुणभेदतः परॊच्यते गुणसंख्याने यथावच छृणु तान्य अपि
jñānaṁ karma ca kartā ca tridhaiva guṇa-bhedataḥ procyate guṇa-saṅkhyāne yathāvac chṛṇu tāny api
WORD BY WORD — PALAVRA POR PALAVRA
jñānam
knowledge
karma
work
ca
also
kartā
worker
ca
also
tridhā
of three kinds
eva
certainly
guṇa-bhedataḥ
in terms of different modes of material nature
procyate
are said
guṇa-saṅkhyāne
in terms of different modes
yathā-vat
as they are
śṛṇu
hear
tāni
all of them
api
also
TRANSLATION — TRADUÇÃO
According to the three different modes of material nature, there are three kinds of knowledge, action and performer of action. Now hear of them from Me.
PURPORT — SIGNIFICADO
In the Fourteenth Chapter the three divisions of the modes of material nature were elaborately described. In that chapter it was said that the mode of goodness is illuminating, the mode of passion materialistic, and the mode of ignorance conducive to laziness and indolence. All the modes of material nature are binding; they are not sources of liberation. Even in the mode of goodness one is conditioned. In the Seventeenth Chapter, the different types of worship by different types of men in different modes of material nature were described. In this verse, the Lord says that He wishes to speak about the different types of knowledge, workers and work itself according to the three material modes.
