Chapter 14

English Meaning Adhyay FourteenThe Yoga of Division of three Gunas.

.	Shree Bhagwan said
1	I shall discuss once more the supreme wisdom, the best of all the wisdom, acquiring which all sages have attained highest perfection, being liberated from this mundane existence.
2	Those who, by practicing this wisdom, have entered into My being are not born again at the cosmic dawn nor feel disturbed even during the cosmic night.
3	My primordial Nature, known as the great Brahma, the womb of all creatures; in that womb I place the seed of all life. The creation of all beings follows from that union of Matter and Spirit, O Arjuna.
4	Of all embodied beings that appear in all the species of various kinds, Arjuna, Prakriti or Nature is conceiving Mother, while I am the seed-giving father.
14.5	Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas-- these three qualities born of Nature tie down the imperishable soul to the body, Arjuna.
14.6	Of these Sattva, being immaculate, is illuminating and flawless. Arjuna, it binds through identification with joy and wisdom.
14.7	Arjuna, know the quality of Rajas, which is of the nature of passion, as born of cupidity and attachment. It bids the soul through attachment to actions and their fruits.
14.8	And know , the deluder of all those who look upon the body as their own self, as born of ignorance. It binds the soul through error, sloth and sleep, Arjuna.
14.9	Sattva derives one to joy and Rajas to action; while Tamas, clouding wisdom, incites one to error as well as sleep and sloth.
14.10	Overpowering Rajas and Tamas, Arjuna, Sattva prevails; overpowering Sattva and Tamas, Rajas prevails; even so, overpowering Sattva and Rajas, Tamas prevails.
14.11	When light and discernment dawn in this body, as well as in the mind and senses, then one should know that Sattva is predominant.
14.12	With the preponderance of Rajas, Arjuna, greed, activity, undertaking of action with an interested motive, restlessness and a thirst for enjoyment make their appearance.
14.13	With the growth of Tamas, Arjuna, obtuseness of the mind and senses, disinclination to perform one's obligatory duties, frivolity and stupor-all these appear.
14.14	When a man dies during the preponderance of Sattva, he obtains the stainless ethereal worlds ( heaven etc. )attained by men of noble deeds.
14.15	Dying when Rajas predominates, he is born among those attached to action; even so the man who has expired during the preponderance of Tamas is reborn in the species of stupid creatures, such as insects and beasts etc.
16	The reward of righteous act, they say, is Sattvika i.e. faultless ( in the shape of joy, wisdom and dispassion etc. ); sorrow is declared to be the fruit of Rajasika act, and ignorance, the fruit of a Tamasika act.
17	Wisdom follows from Sattva, and greed, undoubtedly from Rajas; likewise obstinate error, stupor and also ignorance follow from Tamas.
18	Those who abide in the quality of Sattva wend their way upwards; while those of a Rajasika disposition stay in the middle. And those of a Tamasika temperament, enveloped as they are in the effects of Tamoguna, sink down.
19	When the seer perceives no agent other than the three Gunas, and realizes Me, the supreme Spirit standing entirely beyond these Gunas, he enters into My being.
20	Having transcended the aforesaid three Gunas, which have caused the body, and freed from birth, death, old age and all kinds of sorrow, this soul attains supreme bliss.
.	Arjuna said
21	What are the marks of him who has risen above the three Gunas, and what his conduct ? And how, does he rise above the three Gunas ?
.	Shree Bhagwan said
22	Arjuna, he who hates not light ( which is born of Sattva ) and activity ( which is born of Rajas ) and even stupor ( which is born of Tamas ), when prevalent, nor longs for them when they have ceased.
23	He who sitting like a witness, is not disturbed by the Gunas, and who, knowing that the Gunas alone move among the Gunas, remains established in identity with God, and never falls off from that state.
24	He who is ever established in Self, takes woe and joy alike, regards a cloth of earth, a stone and a piece of gold equal in value, is possessed of wisdom, receives the pleasant as well unpleasant in the same spirit, and views censure and praise alike;
25	He who is indifferent to honor and ignominy, is alike to the cause of a friend and well as to that of an enemy, and has renounced the sense of doer ship in all undertakings, is said to have risen above the three Gunas.
26	He too who, constantly worships Me through the yoga of exclusive devotion,--transcending these three Gunas, he becomes eligible for attaining Brahma.
27	For, I am the ground of the imperishable Brahma, of immortality, of the eternal virtue and of unending ( immutable ) bliss.
end	Thus in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the Science of Brahma, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Shree Krishna and Arjuna, ends the Fourteenth chapter entitled " The Yoga of Division of three Gunas. "