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Bhagavad Gita Adhyay(Chapter) : 14

The Yoga Of Gunas ; Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga


The Blessed Lord said: Again I shall declare to you this supreme wisdom, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have attained to supreme perfection.

By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental nature, which is like My own nature. Thus established, one is not born at the time of creation nor disturbed at the time of dissolution.

The total material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, and it is that Brahman that I impregnate, making possible the births of all living beings, O son of Bharata.

It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kunti, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.

Material nature consists of the three modes-goodness, passion and ignorance. When the living entity comes in contact with nature, he becomes conditioned by these modes.

O sinless one, the mode of goodness, being purer than the others, is illuminating, and it frees one from all sinful reactions. Those situated in that mode become conditioned by the sense of happiness and knowledge.

The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings( yearning desire), O son of Kunti, and because of this one is bound to material fruitive activities.

O son of Bharata, the mode of ignorance causes the delusion of all living entities. The result of this mode is madness, indolence( laziness) and sleep, which bind the conditioned soul.

 O son of Bharata The mode of goodness conditions one to happiness, passion conditions one to the fruits of action, and ignorance covering once knowledge binds one to madness.

Sometimes the mode of passion becomes prominent, defeating the mode of goodness, O son of Bharata. And sometimes the mode of goodness defeats passion, and at other times the mode of ignorance defeats goodness and passion. In this way there is always competition for supremacy.

The manifestations of the mode of goodness can be experienced when all the gates of the body are illuminated by knowledge.

O chief of the Bharatas, when there is an increase in the mode of passion, the symptoms of great attachment, fruits of activities, intense endeavour(try hard to do or achieve something.) ,uncontrollable desire, hankering(a strong desire to have or do something), and intense endeavor develop.

O son of Kuru, when there is an increase in the mode of ignorance madness, illusion, inertia and darkness are manifested.

When one dies in the mode of goodness, he attains to the pure higher planets of the great sages.

When one dies in the mode of passion, he takes birth among those engaged in fruitive activities; and when he dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth in the animal kingdom.

The result of bias act is pure and its said to be in the mode of goodness, but the action done in the mode of passion results in misery and actions performed in the mode of ignorance result in foolishness.

From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion, grief develops; and from the mode of ignorance, foolishness, madness and illusion develop.

Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in the mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds.

When one properly sees that in all activities no other perform is at work than these mode of nature and he know the Supreme Load who is transcendental(relating to a spiritual realm) to all these modes, he attains my spiritual nature.

When the embodied being is able to transcend(go beyond the range or limits) these three modes, he can become free from birth, death, old age and their distresses and can enjoy nectar even in this life.

Arjuna inquired: O my dear Lord, by what symptoms is one known who is transcendental to those modes? What is his behavior? And how does he transcend the modes of nature?

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O son of Pandu, He who does not hate  illumination, attachment and delusion when they are present, nor longs for them when they disappear
who is unwavering and undisturbed through all these reaction of the material qualities remaining neutral and transcendental knowing that the modes alone are active, who is situated in
the self and regard to like happiness and distress, looks upon the lump of earth, a stone and a piece of gold with an equal eye, who is equal to the desirable and the undesirable, who 
is steady and situated equally well in the praise and blame, honor  and dishonour, who treats alike friend and enemy and who has renounced all the material activities such a person is 
known as transcendent(beyond the range of normal or physical human experience) the modes of nature.

One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman.

And I am the basis of the impersonal Brahman, which is  immortal, imperishable and eternal, and is the constitutional position of ultimate happiness.



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