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Bhagavad Gita 17.26

सद्भावे साधुभावे च सदित्येतत्प्रयुज्यते।प्रशस्ते कर्मणि तथा सच्छब्दः पार्थ युज्यते॥

sadbhāve sādhubhāve ca sadityetatprayujyate |praśaste karmaṇi tathā sacchabdaḥ pārtha yujyate ||

The word "Sat" is used to refer to reality and goodness; likewise, O Arjuna, the word "Sat" is used to refer to an auspicious act.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Sat' means Reality or the highest Good, and also, O Arjuna, it is used to denote an action of exceptional merit.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 17.26 · SatsangVidya