{
  "book_title": "Bhagavad-gītā As It Is",
  "chapter": 17,
  "verse": 17,
  "reference": "Bg 17.17",
  "devanagari": "श्रद्धया परया तप्तं तपस्तत्त्रिविधं नरैः\nअफलाकांक्षिभिर्युक्तैः सात्त्विकं परिचक्षते",
  "transliteration": "śraddhayā parayā taptaṁ\ntapas tat tri-vidhaṁ naraiḥ\naphalākāṅkṣibhir yuktaiḥ\nsāttvikaṁ paricakṣate",
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "śraddhayā",
      "meanings": [
        "with faith"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "parayā",
      "meanings": [
        "transcendental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "taptam",
      "meanings": [
        "executed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "tapaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "austerity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "tat",
      "meanings": [
        "that"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "tri-vidham",
      "meanings": [
        "three kinds"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "naraiḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "by men"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "aphala-ākāṅkṣibhiḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "without desires for fruits"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "yuktaiḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "engaged"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "sāttvikam",
      "meanings": [
        "in the mode of goodness"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "pari-cakṣate",
      "meanings": [
        "is called."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translation": "<b>This threefold austerity, practiced by men whose aim is not to benefit themselves materially but to please the Supreme, is of the nature of goodness.</b>",
  "purport": []
}