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BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:19

 

jnanam karma ca karta ca

tridhaiva guna-bhedatah

procyate guna-sankhyane

yathavac chrnu tany api

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

jnanam--knowledge; karma--work; ca--also; karta--worker; ca--also;

tridha--of three kinds; eva--certainly; guna-bhedatah--in terms of

different modes of material nature; procyate--are said;

guna-sankhyane--in terms of different modes; yatha-vat--as they are;

srnu--hear; tani--all of them; api--also.

 

TRANSLATION

 

According to the three different modes of material nature, there are

three kinds of knowledge, action and performer of action. Now hear of

them from Me.

 

PURPORT

 

In the Fourteenth Chapter the three divisions of the modes of material

nature were elaborately described. In that chapter it was said that

the mode of goodness is illuminating, the mode of passion

materialistic, and the mode of ignorance conducive to laziness and

indolence. All the modes of material nature are binding; they are not

sources of liberation. Even in the mode of goodness one is

conditioned. In the Seventeenth Chapter, the different types of

worship by different types of men in different modes of material

nature were described. In this verse, the Lord says that He wishes to

speak about the different types of knowledge, workers and work itself

according to the three material modes.

 

Copyright 1983 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with

permission.

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