Chapter 14
Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga
The Three Gunas
- Verse 14.1Again I will declare (to you) the highest knowledge, the best of (all sorts of) knowledge, having learnt which, all…
- Verse 14.2Those who, resorting to this knowledge, reach assimilation with my essence, are not born at the creation, and are not…
- Verse 14.3The great Brahman is a womb for me, in which I cast the seed. From that, O descendant of Bharata! is the birth of all…
- Verse 14.4Of the bodies, O son of Kuntî! which are born from all wombs, the (main) womb is the great Brahman, and I (am) the…
- Verse 14.5Goodness, passion, darkness, these qualities born from nature, O you of mighty arms! bind down the inexhaustible soul…
- Verse 14.6Of these, goodness, which, in consequence of being untainted, is enlightening and free from (all) misery, binds the…
- Verse 14.7Know that passion consists in being enamoured, and is produced from craving and attachment. That, O son of Kuntî!…
- Verse 14.8Darkness (you must) know to be born of ignorance, it deludes all embodied (selfs). And that, O descendant of Bharata!…
- Verse 14.9Goodness unites (the self) with pleasure; passion, O descendant of Bharata! with action; and darkness with…
- Verse 14.10Passion and darkness being repressed, goodness stands, O descendant of Bharata! Passion and goodness (being…
- Verse 14.11When in this body at all portals light (that is to say) knowledge prevails, then should one know goodness to be…
- Verse 14.12Avarice, activity, performance of actions, want of tranquillity, desire, these are produced, O chief of the…
- Verse 14.13Want of light, want of activity, heedlessness, and delusion, these are produced, O descendant of Kuru! when darkness…
- Verse 14.14When an embodied (self) encounters death, while goodness is developed, then he reaches the untainted worlds of those…
- Verse 14.15Encountering death during (the prevalence of) passion, he is born among those attached to action. Likewise, dying…
- Verse 14.16The fruit of meritorious action is said to be good, untainted; while the fruit of passion is misery; and the fruit of…
- Verse 14.17From goodness is produced knowledge, from passion avarice, and from darkness heedlessness and delusion and ignorance…
- Verse 14.18Those who adhere to (the ways of) goodness go up; the passionate remain in the middle; while those of the qualities of…
- Verse 14.19When a right-seeing person sees none but the qualities (to be) the doers (of all action), and knows what is above the…
- Verse 14.20The embodied (self), who transcends these three qualities, from which bodies are produced, attains immortality, being…
- Verse 14.21What are the characteristics, O lord! of one who has transcended these three qualities? What is his conduct, and how…
- Verse 14.22He is said to have transcended the qualities, O son of Pându! who is not averse to light and activity and delusion…
- Verse 14.23who sitting like one unconcerned is never perturbed by the qualities; who remains steady and moves not, (thinking)…
- Verse 14.24who is self-contained; to whom pain and pleasure are alike; to whom a sod and a stone and gold are alike; to whom what…
- Verse 14.25who is alike in honour and dishonour; who is alike towards the sides of friends and foes; and who abandons all action.
- Verse 14.26And he who worships me with an unswerving devotion, transcends these qualities, and becomes fit for (entrance into)…
- Verse 14.27For I am the embodiment of the Brahman, of indefeasible immortality, of eternal piety, and of unbroken happiness.