Bhagavad Gita chapter 14

The Three Modes of Material Nature

🙏श्रीभगवानुवाच 📝
🙏परं भूयः प्रवक्ष्यामि ज्ञानानां ज्ञानमुत्तमम्।
यज्ज्ञात्वा मुनयः सर्वे परां सिद्धिमितो गताः।। 📝
🌄(श्रीमद्भगवदगीता अध्याय १४/१)✏

VERSE 1: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Again I shall declare to you this supreme wisdom, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have attained the supreme perfection.

इदं ज्ञानमुपाश्रित्य मम साधर्म्यमागताः।
सर्गेऽपि नोपजायन्ते प्रलये न व्यथन्ति च।।📝
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VERSE 2: By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental nature like My own. Thus established, one is not born at the time of creation or disturbed at the time of dissolution.

🙏मम योनिर्महद्ब्रह्म तस्मिन्गर्भ दधाम्यहम्।
संभवः सर्वभूतानां ततो भवति भारत ।।📝
🌄(श्रीमद्भगवद गीता अध्याय १४/३)✏

VERSE 3: 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.

🙏सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः।
तासां ब्रह्म महद्योनिरहं बीजप्रदः पिता।।📝
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VERSE 4: It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kuntī, are made possible by birth in this material nature and that I am the seed-giving father.

🙏सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः।
निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्।।📝
🌄(श्रीमद्भगवदगीता अध्याय १४/५)✏

VERSE 5: Material nature consists of three modes – goodness, passion and ignorance. When the eternal living entity comes in contact with nature, O mighty-armed Arjuna, he becomes conditioned by these modes.

🙏तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम् ।
सुखसंगेन बध्नाति ज्ञानसंगेन चानघ ।।📝
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VERSE 6: 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 a sense of happiness and knowledge.

🙏रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासंगसमुद्भवम् ।
तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसंगेन देहिनम् ।।📝
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🙏तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम्।
प्रमादालस्यनिद्राभिस्तन्निबध्नाति भारत।। 📝
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VERSES 7-8: The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kuntī, and because of this the embodied living entity is bound to material fruitive actions. O son of Bharata, know that the mode of darkness, born of ignorance, is the delusion of all embodied living entities. The results of this mode are madness, indolence and sleep, which bind the conditioned soul.

🙏सत्त्वं सुखे संजयति रजः कर्मणि भारत।
ज्ञानमावृत्य तु तमः प्रमादे संजयत्युत।।📝
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VERSE 9: O son of Bharata, the mode of goodness conditions one to happiness; passion conditions one to fruitive action; and ignorance, covering one’s knowledge, binds one to madness.

🙏रजस्तमस्चाभिभूय सत्त्वं भवति भारत।
रजः सत्त्वं तमश्चैव तमः सत्त्वं रजस्तथा।।📝
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VERSE 10: Sometimes the mode of goodness becomes prominent, defeating the modes of passion and ignorance, O son of Bharata. Sometimes the mode of passion defeats goodness and ignorance, and at other times ignorance defeats goodness and passion. In this way, there is always competition for supremacy.

🙏सर्वद्वारेषु देहेऽस्मिन्प्रकाश उपजायते।
ज्ञानं यदा तदा विद्याद्विवृद्धं सत्त्वमित्युत ।।📝
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VERSE 11: The manifestation of the mode of goodness can be experienced when all the gates of the body are illuminated by knowledge.

🙏लोभः प्रवृत्तिरारम्भः कर्मणामशमः स्पृहा।
रजस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे भरतर्षभ।।📝
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VERSE 12: O chief of the Bhāratas, when there is an increase in the mode of passion the symptoms of great attachment, fruitive activity, intense endeavour, and uncontrollable desire and hankering develop.

🙏अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च।
तमस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरुनन्दन ।।📝
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VERSE 13: When there is an increase in the mode of ignorance, O son of Kuru, darkness, inertia, madness and illusion are manifested.

🙏यदा सत्वे प्रवृद्धे तु प्रलयं याति देहभृत्।
तदोत्तमविदां लोकानमलान्प्रतिपद्यते ।।📝
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VERSE 14: When one dies in the mode of goodness, he attains to the pure higher planets of the great sages.

🙏रजसि प्रलयं गत्वा कर्मसंगिषु जायते।
तथा प्रलीनस्तमसि मूढयोनिषु जायते।।📝
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VERSE 15: When one dies in the mode of passion, he takes birth among those engaged in fruitive activities; and when one dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth in the animal kingdom.

🙏कर्मणः सुकृतस्याहुः सात्त्विकं निर्मलं फलम्।
रजसस्तु फलं दुःखमज्ञानं तमसः फलम्।।📝
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VERSE 16: The result of pious action is pure and is said to be in the mode of goodness. But action is done in the mode of passion results in misery, and action performed in the mode of ignorance results in foolishness.

🙏सत्त्वात्संजायते ज्ञानं रजसो लोभ एव च।
प्रमामोहौ तमसो भवतोऽज्ञानमेव च।।📝
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VERSE 17: From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion, greed develops; and from the mode of ignorance develop foolishness, madness and illusion.

🙏ऊर्ध्व गच्छन्ति सत्त्वस्था मध्ये तिष्ठन्ति राजसाः।
जघन्यगुणवृत्तिस्था अधो गच्छन्ति तामसाः।। 📝
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VERSE 18: 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 abominable mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds.

🙏नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति।
गुणेभ्यश्च परं वेत्ति मद्भावं सोऽधिगच्छति।। 📝
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VERSE 19: When one properly sees that in all activities no other performer is at work than these modes of nature and he knows the Supreme Lord, who is transcendental to all these modes, he attains My spiritual nature.

🙏गुणानेतानतीत्य त्रीन्देही देहसमुद्भवान्।
जन्ममृत्युजरादुःखैर्विमुक्तोऽमृतमश्नुते।।📝
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VERSE 20: When the embodied being is able to transcend these three modes associated with the material body, he can become free from birth, death, old age and they're distresses and can enjoy nectar even in this life.

🙏अर्जुन उवाच📝
🙏कैर्लिगैस्त्रीन्गुणानेतानतीतो भवति प्रभो।
किमाचारः कथं चैतांस्त्रीन्गुणानतिवर्तते।।📝 🌄(
श्रीमद्भगवदगीता अध्याय १४/२१)✏

VERSE 21: Arjuna inquired: O my dear Lord, by which symptoms is one known who is transcendental to these three modes? What is his behaviour? And how does he transcend the modes of nature?

🙏श्रीभगवानुवाच📝
🙏प्रकाशं च प्रवृत्तिं च मोहमेव च पाण्डव।
न द्वेष्टि संप्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि कांक्षति।।📝
🌄(श्रीमद्भगवदगीता अध्याय १४/२२)✏
🌅अर्थात:-भगवान श्रीकृष्णले भन्नुभयो📝
🙏उदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते ।
गुणा वर्तन्त इत्ये योऽवतिष्ठति नेंगते ।।📝
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🙏समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकांचनः।
तुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुति:।📝
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🙏मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः ।
सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी गुणातीतः स उच्यते।।📝
🌄(श्रीमद्भगवदगीता अध्याय १४/२५)✏

VERSES 22-25: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O son of Pāṇḍu, he who does not hate illumination, attachment and delusion when they are present or long for them when they disappear; who is unwavering and undisturbed through all these reactions of the material qualities, remaining neutral and transcendental, knowing that the modes alone are active; who is situated in the self and regards alike happiness and distress; who looks upon a lump of earth, a stone and a piece of gold with an equal eye; who is equal toward the desirable and the undesirable; who is steady, situated equally well in praise and blame, honor and dishonor; who treats alike both friend and enemy; and who has renounced all material activities – such a person is said to have transcended the modes of nature.

🙏मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगने सेवते।
स गुणान्समतीत्यैतान्ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते।।📝
🌄(श्रीमद्भगवदगीता अध्याय १४/२६)✏

VERSE 26: One who engages in full devotional service, unfailing in all circumstances, at once 

transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman.

🙏ब्रह्मणो हि प्रतिष्ठाहममृतस्याव्ययस्य च।
शाश्वतस्य च धर्मस्य सुखस्यैकान्तिकस्य च।।📝
🌄(श्रीमद्भगवदगीता अध्याय १४/२७)✏

VERSE 27: And I am the basis of the impersonal Brahman, which is immortal, imperishable and eternal and is the constitutional position of ultimate happiness.