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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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means lacking in essence.-Tr.] (-because food that<br />

has lost its essence is referred to by the word<br />

gatarasam-); gata-rasam, lacking in essence; puti,<br />

putrid; and paryusitam, stale, cooked on the<br />

previous day and kept over-night; and even<br />

ucchistam, ort, remnants of a meal; and<br />

amedhyam, that which is unfit for sacrifice;- this<br />

kind of food is tamasa-priyam, dear to one<br />

possessed of tamas. Now then, sacrifices of three<br />

kinds are being stated:<br />

17.11 That sacrifice which is in accordance with the<br />

injunctions, (and is) performed by persons who do<br />

not hanker after results, and with the mental<br />

conviction that it is surely obligatory, is done<br />

through sattva.<br />

English Translation of Sri Sankaracharya's Sanskrit<br />

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

17.11 Sah, that; yajnah, sacrifice; vidhi-drstah,<br />

which is in accordance with the injunctions, which<br />

is known through scriptural unjunctions; (and)<br />

yah, which; is ijyate, performed; a-phalaakanksibhih,<br />

by persons who do not hanker after<br />

results; manah samadhaya, with the mental<br />

conviction; iti, that; yastavyam, eva, it is surely<br />

obligatory, their duty is to accomplish the sacrifice<br />

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