Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 17, Verse 11

अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिर्यज्ञो विधिदृष्टो य इज्यते । यष्टव्यमेवेति मनः समाधाय स सात्त्विकः

aphalākāṅkṣibhiryajño vidhidṛṣṭo ya ijyate | yaṣṭavyameveti manaḥ samādhāya sa sāttvikaḥ

Translation

That worship is Sāttvic which is offered by men desiring no fruit, as enjoined in the Law, with a fixed resolve in the mind that they should merely worship.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

aphalākāṅkṣibhiḥ

not, of fruit, by the desirous

yajñaḥ

sacrifice

vidhidṛṣṭaḥ

in the rule (of the Shāstra), seen (prescribed)

yaḥ

which

ijyate

is offered

yaṣṭavyam

ought to be offered

eva

even

iti

thus

manaḥ

the mind

samādhāya

having fixed

saḥ

that

sāttvikaḥ

sāttvic

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

"That they should merely worship": that their duty lies in the mere performance of the worship itself, that no personal end has to be achieved by that means.