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.