Sanskrit
तेजः क्षमा धृतिः शौचमद्रोहो नातिमानिता । भवन्ति सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातस्य भारत ॥
tejaḥ kṣamā dhṛtiḥ śaucam adroho nātimānitā bhavanti sampadaṃ daivīm abhijātasya bhārata
Translation
Vigour, forgiveness, fortitude, purity, absence of envy and pride—these are his who is born with the divine properties, O Bhârata.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The third and final verse of the divine catalogue closes with tejas (vigor or radiance), kṣamā (forgiveness), dhṛti (steadfastness under strain — the same term used for Arjuna’s fortitude elsewhere), and freedom from envy and excessive self-regard. The key theological move is in the closing clause: these qualities “belong to one born with divine sampad,” where sampad means something closer to inherited endowment or wealth than achieved virtue. That framing matters for the rest of the chapter — the Gita is describing two natures people are born into rather than two choices made in the moment, which raises, without resolving here, the question of how much of this is destiny versus cultivation.