सत्त्वानुरूपा सर्वस्य श्रद्धा भवति भारत ।श्रद्धामयोऽयं पुरुषो यो यच्छ्रद्धः स एव सः ॥
sattvānurūpā sarvasya śraddhā bhavati bhārata |śraddhāmayo'yaṃ puruṣo yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ ||
O descendant of Bharata, everyone's faith takes the shape of their inner nature. A person is made of faith: whatever someone's faith is, that is exactly what they are.
Explanation
Krishna is answering Arjuna's question about people who ignore scriptural rules but still act with faith (śraddhā). He says faith is not random: it follows a person's inner makeup (sattva), which here means the mind's underlying disposition shaped by the three gunas. Faith and identity are bound together, so a person's deepest conviction shows what they are. Some readers take sattva here as the mind or character; others stress its link to the guna called sattva.