Friday, February 28, 2020

Bhagwad Gita - Post 173

CHAPTER 14

THE YOGA OF THE DIVISON OF THE THREE GUNAS

Verse 1

Sri Bhagavaan Uvaacha:

Param bhooyah pravakshyaami
jnaanaanaam jnaanamuttamam;
Yajjnaatwaa munayah sarve
paraam siddhimito gataah.

The Blessed Lord said:

I will again declare (to thee) that supreme knowledge, the best of all knowledge, having known which all the sages have gone to the supreme perfection after this life.

Verse 2 

Idam jnaanam upaashritya
mama saadharmyam aagataah;
Sarge’pi nopajaayante
pralaye na vyathanti cha.

They who, having taken refuge in this knowledge, attain to unity with Me, are neither born at the time of creation nor are they disturbed at the time of dissolution.

Verse 3

Mama yonirmahadbrahma
tasmin garbham dadhaamyaham;
Sambhavah sarvabhootaanaam
tato bhavati bhaarata.

My womb is the great Brahma; in that I place the germ; thence, O Arjuna, is the birth of all beings!

Verse 4

Sarvayonishu kaunteya
moortayah sambhavanti yaah;
Taasaam brahma mahadyonir
aham beejapradah pitaa.

Whatever forms are produced, O Arjuna, in any womb whatsoever, the great Brahma is their womb and I am the seed-giving father.

Verse 5

Sattwam rajastama iti
gunaah prakriti sambhavaah;
Nibadhnanti mahaabaaho
dehe dehinam avyayam.

Purity, passion and inertia—these qualities, O mighty-armed Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the body, the embodied, the indestructible!

Verse 6

Tatra sattwam nirmalatwaat
prakaashakam anaamayam;
Sukhasangena badhnaati
jnaanasangena chaanagha.

Of these, Sattwa, which from its stainlessness is luminous and healthy, binds by attachment to knowledge and to happiness, O sinless one!

Verse 7

Rajo raagaatmakam viddhi
Trishna asangasa mudbhavam;
Tannibadhnaati kaunteya
karmasangena dehinam.

Know thou Rajas to be of the nature of passion, the source of thirst (for sensual enjoyment) and attachment; it binds fast, O Arjuna, the embodied one by attachment to action!

Verse 8

Tamastwajnaanajam viddhi
mohanam sarvadehinaam;
Pramaadaalasyanidraabhis
tannibadhnaati bhaarata.

But know thou Tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds fast, O Arjuna, by heedlessness, sleep and indolence!

Verse 9

Sattwam sukhe sanjayati
rajah karmani bhaarata;
Jnaanamaavritya tu tamah
pramaade sanjayatyuta.

Sattwa attaches to happiness, Rajas to action, O Arjuna, while Tamas, shrouding knowledge, attaches to heedlessness only!

Verse 10

Rajastamashchaabhibhooya
sattwam bhavati bhaarata;
Rajah sattwam tamashchaiva
tamah sattwam rajastathaa.

Now Sattwa prevails, O Arjuna, having overpowered Rajas and Tamas; now Rajas, having overpowered Sattwa and Tamas; and now Tamas, having overpowered Sattwa and Rajas!

Verse 11

Sarvadwaareshu dehe’smin
prakaasha upajaayate;
Jnaanam yadaa tadaa vidyaa
dvivriddham sattwamityuta.

When, through every gate (sense) in this body, the wisdom-light shines, then it may be known that Sattwa is predominant.

Verse 12

Lobhah pravrittir aarambhah
karmanaam ashamah sprihaa;
Rajasyetaani jaayante
vivriddhe bharatarshabha.

Greed, activity, the undertaking of actions, restlessness, longing—these arise when Rajas is predominant, O Arjuna!
  
Verse 13

Aprakaasho’pravrittishcha
pramaado moha eva cha;
Tamasyetaani jaayante
vivriddhe kurunandana.

Darkness, inertness, heedlessness and delusion—these arise when Tamas is predominant, O Arjuna!

To be continued…

Love.

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