BG 16.1-3

श्रीभगवानुवाच
अभयं सत्त्वसंशुद्धिर्ज्ञानयोगव्यवस्थितिः ।
दानं दमश्च यज्ञश्च स्वाध्यायस्तप आर्जवम् ॥
अहिंसा सत्यमक्रोधस्त्यागः शान्तिरपैशुनम् ।
दया भूतेष्वलोलुप्त्वं मार्दवं ह्रीरचापलम् ॥
तेजः क्षमा धृतिः शौचमद्रोहो नातिमानिता ।
भवन्ति सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातस्य भारत ॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
abhayaṁ sattva-saṁśuddhir jñāna-yoga-vyavasthitiḥ
dānaṁ damaś ca yajñaś ca svādhyāyas tapa ārjavam
ahiṁsā satyam akrodhas tyāgaḥ śāntir apaiśunam
dayā bhūteṣv aloluptvaṁ mārdavaṁ hrīr acāpalam
tejaḥ kṣamā dhṛtiḥ śaucam adroho nāti-mānitā
bhavanti sampadaṁ daivīm abhijātasya bhārata

Word-for-word meanings

śrī-bhagavān uvāca — Śrī Bhagavān said;  abhayam — fearlessness;  sattva-saṁśuddhiḥ — purity of heart;  vyavasthitiḥ — perseverance;  yoga — in the methods of cultivation;  jñāna — [of] immediate insight;  dānam — charity;  ca — and;  damaḥ — control of the external senses;  ca — and;  yajñaḥ — sacrifice;  svādhyāyaḥ — study of the Vedas;  tapaḥ — austerity;  ārjavam — straighforwardness;  ahiṁsā — non-violence;  satyam — truthfulness;  akrodhaḥ — absence of anger;  tyāgaḥ — detachment;  śāntiḥ — composure of mind;  apaiśunam — freedom from the tendency to malign others;  dayā — compassion;  bhūteṣu — toward all living beings;  aloluptvam — absence of greed;  mārdavam — soft-heartedness;  hrīḥ — modesty;  acāpalam — steadiness;  tejaḥ — vigor;  kṣamā — tolerance;  dhṛtiḥ — fortitude;  śaucam — cleanliness;  adrohaḥ — freedom from enmity;  na — [and] the negation [i.e., the absence];  ati-mānitā — [of] excessive self-esteem;  bhārata — O descendant of Bharata;  bhavanti — [these twenty-six qualities] arise;  abhijātasya — to one who is born of;  daivīm — the divine;  sampadam — disposition.

Translation

Śrī Bhagavān said: Fearlessness, purity of heart, perseverance in the methods of cultivation of immediate insight ( jñāna), charity, control of the external senses, sacrifice ( yajña), study of the Vedas, austerity, straightforwardness, non-violence, truthfulness, absence of anger, detachment, composure of mind, freedom from the tendency to malign others, compassion toward all living beings, absence of greed, soft-heartedness, modesty, steadiness, vigor, tolerance, fortitude, cleanliness, freedom from enmity, and the absence of excessive self-esteem — O descendant of Bharata, all these qualities arise to one who is born of the divine disposition.

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