श्रीभगवानुवाच—
त्रिविधा भवति श्रद्धा देहिनां सा स्वभावजा ।
सात्त्विकी राजसी चैव तामसी चेति तां शृणु ॥ २ ॥
त्रिविधा भवति श्रद्धा देहिनां सा स्वभावजा ।
सात्त्विकी राजसी चैव तामसी चेति तां शृणु ॥ २ ॥
śrībhagavānuvāca—
trividhā bhavati śraddhā dehināṃ sā svabhāvajā .
sāttvikī rājasī caiva tāmasī ceti tāṃ śṛṇu .. 2 ..
The Blessed Lord said :
Threefold is that faith born of the individual nature of the embodied,—Sattvic, Rajasic, and Tamasic. Do thou hear of it.
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Faith, of which thou hast asked, is of three sorts. It is born of the individual nature (svabhava): i.e., the samskara or tendency made up of the self-reproductive latent impressions of the acts—good and bad, Dharma and Adharma—which were done in the past births and which manifested themselves at the time of death. Sattvic: faith in the worship of the Gods (Devas) which is an effect of Sattva. Rajasic: faith in the worship of the Yakṣas and the Rākṣasas, which is an effect of Rajas. Tamasic: faith in the worship of the Pretas and the Pisachas, which is an effect of Tamas. Do thou understand the threefold faith which is going to be described.