Chapter 17, Slok 4
🗣 Speaker: zrIbhagavAnBG 17.4
Original Verse
yajante sAttvikA devAnyakSarakSAMsi rAjasAH | pretAnbhUtagaNAMzcAnye yajante tAmasA janAH ||17-4||
Transliteration
yajante sāttvikā devānyakṣarakṣāṃsi rājasāḥ . pretānbhūtagaṇāṃścānye yajante tāmasā janāḥ ||17-4||
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Swami Adidevananda
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Translation
17.4 The Sattvika types worship the gods. The Rajasa types worship Yaksas and Raksasas. And the others, the Tamasa types, worship the departed ancestors and hosts of Bhutas.