Chapter 17 · Verse 3 · Sraddhatraya Vibhaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 17.3
Sanskrit
सत्त्वानुरूपा सर्वस्य श्रद्धा भवति भारत।श्रद्धामयोऽयं पुरुषो यो यच्छ्रद्धः स एव सः।।17.3।।
Transliteration
sattvānurūpā sarvasya śhraddhā bhavati bhārata śhraddhā-mayo ‘yaṁ puruṣho yo yach-chhraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ
In plain words
You're drowning in borrowed beliefs—voices from your family, your culture, your past telling you who to be and what to trust. Krishna says: your faith isn't something you adopt from outside; it grows from who you actually are, from the ground of your own deepest nature. Stop asking what you're supposed to believe. Ask instead: what do I know to be true when I'm quiet enough to listen?
Word by Word
Your faith is the mirror of your nature, Arjuna. The Divine does not impose belief from outside—it reveals itself through the lens of your own consciousness.
As you believe, so you become; your convictions sculpt your reality like a sculptor shapes clay. In this modern age of competing ideologies and borrowed beliefs, the Gita calls you to examine: whose faith are you actually living, and does it spring from your deepest truth?
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Bhagavad Gita 17.3 — BG 17.3
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