BHAGAVAD-GITA 14:19

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 14:19

 

nanyam gunebhyah kartaram

yada drastanupasyati

gunebhyas ca param vetti

mad-bhavam so 'dhigacchati

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

na--no; anyam--other; gunebhyah--than the qualities;

kartaram--performer; yada--when; drasta--a seer; anupasyati--sees

properly; gunebhyah--to the modes of nature; ca--and;

param--transcendental; vetti--knows; mat-bhavam--to My spiritual

nature; sah--he; adhigacchati--is promoted.

 

TRANSLATION

 

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.

 

PURPORT

 

One can transcend all the activities of the modes of material nature

simply by understanding them properly by learning from the proper

souls. The real spiritual master is Krsna, and He is imparting this

spiritual knowledge to Arjuna. Similarly, it is from those who are

fully in Krsna consciousness that one has to learn this science of

activities in terms of the modes of nature. Otherwise, one's life will

be misdirected. By the instruction of a bona fide spiritual master, a

living entity can know of his spiritual position, his material body,

his senses, how he is entrapped, and how he is under the spell of the

material modes of nature. He is helpless, being in the grip of these

modes, but when he can see his real position, then he can attain to

the transcendental platform, having the scope for spiritual life.

Actually, the living entity is not the performer of different

activities. He is forced to act because he is situated in a particular

type of body, conducted by some particular mode of material nature.

Unless one has the help of spiritual authority, he cannot understand

in what position he is actually situated. With the association of a

bona fide spiritual master, he can see his real position, and by such

an understanding he can become fixed in full Krsna consciousness. A

man in Krsna consciousness is not controlled by the spell of the

material modes of nature. It has already been stated in the Seventh

Chapter that one who has surrendered to Krsna is relieved from the

activities of material nature. For one who is able to see things as

they are, the influence of material nature gradually ceases.

 

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