Chapter 17, Slok 13
🗣 Speaker: zrIbhagavAnBG 17.13
Original Verse
vidhihInamasRSTAnnaM mantrahInamadakSiNam | zraddhAvirahitaM yajJaM tAmasaM paricakSate ||17-13||
Transliteration
vidhihīnamasṛṣṭānnaṃ mantrahīnamadakṣiṇam . śraddhāvirahitaṃ yajñaṃ tāmasaṃ paricakṣate ||17-13||
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Swami Adidevananda
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Translation
17.13 That sacrifice which is bereft of authority, which uses offerings not sanctioned by the Sastras, which is performed without recitation of hymns and bereft of gifts and faith - that, they say, is marked by Tamas.