श्रीभगवानुवाच |
The Blessed Lord said I will again declare (to thee) that supreme knowledge, the best of …
14.2इदं ज्ञानमुपाश्रित्य मम साधर्म्यमागताः |
They who, having taken refuge in this knowledge, have attained to unity with Me, are neith…
14.3मम योनिर्महद् ब्रह्म तस्मिन्गर्भं दधाम्यहम् |
My womb is the great Brahma; in that I place the germ; thence, O Arjuna, is the birth of a…
14.4सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः |
Whatever forms are produced, O Arjuna, in any womb whatsoever, the great Brahma is their w…
14.5सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसम्भवाः |
Purity, passion and inertia these alities, O Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the bod…
14.6तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम् |
Of these, Sattva, which from its stainlessness is luminous and healthy, binds by attachmen…
14.7रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् |
Know thou Rajas to be of the nature of passion, the source of thirst (for sensual enjoymen…
14.8तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम् |
But know thou Tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds fast, …
14.9सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः कर्मणि भारत |
Sattva attaches to happiness, Rajas to action, O Arjuna, while Tamas verily shrouding know…
14.10रजस्तमश्चाभिभूय सत्त्वं भवति भारत |
Now Sattva arises (prevails), O Arjuna, having overpowered Rajas and Tamas; nor Rajas, hav…
14.11सर्वद्वारेषु देहेऽस्मिन्प्रकाश उपजायते |
When through every gate (sense) in this body, the wisdom-light shines, then it may be know…
14.12लोभः प्रवृत्तिरारम्भः कर्मणामशमः स्पृहा |
Greed, activity, the undertaking of actions, restlessness, longing these arise when Rajas…
14.13अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च |
Darkness, inertness, heedlessness and delusion these arise when Tamas is predominant, O A…
14.14यदा सत्त्वे प्रवृद्धे तु प्रलयं याति देहभृत् |
If the embodied one meets with death when Sattva is predominant, then he attains to the sp…
14.15रजसि प्रलयं गत्वा कर्मसङ्गिषु जायते |
Meeting death in Rajas, he is born among those who are attached to action; and dying in Ta…
14.16कर्मणः सुकृतस्याहुः सात्त्विकं निर्मलं फलम् |
The fruit of good action, they say, is Sattvic and pure, verily the fruit of Rajas is pain…
14.17सत्त्वात्सञ्जायते ज्ञानं रजसो लोभ एव च |
From Sattva arises knowledge, and greed from Rajas; heedlessness and delusion arise from T…
14.18ऊर्ध्वं गच्छन्ति सत्त्वस्था मध्ये तिष्ठन्ति राजसाः |
Those who are seated in Sattva go upwards; the Rajasic dwell in the middle; and the Tamasi…
14.19नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति |
When the seer beholds no agent other than the Gunas and knows That which is higher than th…
14.20गुणानेतानतीत्य त्रीन्देही देहसमुद्भवान् |
The embodied one having crossed beyond these three Gunas out of which the body is evolved,…
14.21अर्जुन उवाच |
Arjuna said What are the marks of him who has transcended the three alities, O Lord?
14.22श्रीभगवानुवाच |
The Blessed Lord said When light, activity and delusion are present, he hates them not, n…
14.23उदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते |
He who, seated like one unconcerned, is not moved by the alities, and who, knowing that th…
14.24समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः |
Who is the same in pleasure and pain, who dwells in the Self, to whom a clod of earth, sto…
14.25मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः |
Who is the same in honour and dishonour, the same to friend and foe, abandoning all undert…
14.26मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते |
And he who serves Me with unswerving devotion, he, crossing beyond the alities, is fit for…
14.27ब्रह्मणो हि प्रतिष्ठाहममृतस्याव्ययस्य च |
For I am the abode of Brahman, the immortal and the immutable, of everlasting Dharma and o…