SLOKA OF THE DAY:

Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 17 Text 1
arjuna uvaca
ye sastra-vidhim utsrjya
yajante sraddhayanvitah
tesam nistha tu ka krsna
sattvam aho rajas tamah

arjunah uvaca--Arjuna said; ye--those who; sastra-vidhim--the regulations of scripture; utsrjya--giving up; yajante--worship; sraddhaya--full faith; anvitah--possessed of; tesam--of them; nistha--the faith; tu--but; ka--what; krsna--O Krsna; sattvam--in goodness; aho--or else; rajah--in passion; tamah--in ignorance.

TRANSLATION

Arjuna inquired: O Krsna, what is the situation of those who do not follow the principles of scripture but worship according to their own imagination? Are they in goodness, in passion or in ignorance?

JOURNAL:

Srila Prabhupada, in the beginning of his purport, points out; In the Fourth Chapter, thirty-ninth verse, it is said that a person faithful to a particular type of worship gradually becomes elevated to the stage of knowledge and attains the highest perfectional stage of peace and prosperity. Notice how inclusive this statement is. Swamiji always wanted his movement to be non-sectarian and here he shows how the Gita upholds this idea.