Guest guest Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 In Gitaji God says, regarding mode of purity (sattva), activity / passion (rajas) and inertia (tamas) that on having an inclination for these three modes of nature, there is no desire to be released from rebirth and on being released from rebirth there is no desire to be inclined to the three gunas (modes of nature). Kindly elaborate? Raja Gurdasani --------------- IN HINDI IN GITAJI GOD SAYS STVA, RAJ AUR TAM IN TEENO GUNO KE PRAVRAT HONE PAR NIVTRATI KI AKANSHA NAHI AUR NIVRAT HONE PAR PRAVRATI KI AKANSHA NAHI, KINDLY ELABORATE? RAJA GURDASANI =========================================== GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES: PLEASE - FOR QUESTIONER 1. The questions as far as possible must be relevant to Gita, relevant to Dharma, relavant to other scriptures and relevant to motivate Sadhaks to take up spiritual path 2. The Questioner must commit to feedback at end of dicussion to bring closure and commit to daily Gita study 3. Only one question at a time. 4. Question must be brief, to the point and relevant to the group's primary aim of deeper understanding of Gita. GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES for RESPONDER: PLEASE - 1. Only responses that further clarify Gita message will be posted. 2. Quote Gitaji/scriptures wherever possible. 3. RESPECT all Sadhaks. Limit personal feelings, opinions, beliefs etc. to the extent that they further help in understanding the Gita shlokas 4. Be BRIEF, RELEVANT (stay with the subject being discussed only) 5. Do not include links to the other sites; personal information (Ph #, address etc) or personalize message to particular person 6. All responses may not be posted. 7. Please keep in mind novices, youth, westerners, non-sectarian audience. Limit the use to Sanskrit words and provide English word bracketed. GITA TALK MODERATORS Ram Ram ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- Post message: Subscribe: - Un: - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 In Gitaji God says, regarding mode of purity (sattva), activity / passion(rajas) and inertia (tamas) that on having an inclination for these three modesof nature, there is no desire to be released from rebirth and on being releasedfrom rebirth there is no desire to be inclined to the three gunas (modes ofnature). Kindly elaborate?Raja Gurdasani---------------IN HINDIIN GITAJI GOD SAYS STVA, RAJ AUR TAM IN TEENO GUNO KE PRAVRAT HONE PAR NIVTRATIKI AKANSHA NAHI AUR NIVRAT HONE PAR PRAVRATI KI AKANSHA NAHI,KINDLY ELABORATE?RAJA GURDASANI=========================================== NEW POSTING Dear Sadhakas,Hare Krishna. This is in response to a question from a Sadhaka. Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita, "Sattvam rajas tama iti,Gunah prakrti sambhavahNibadhnanti maha baho,Dehe dehinam avyayam" (Gitaji 14,5) Which means,'Material nature consists of mode of goodness(sattvika),passion(rajo),ignorance(tamasa). When the living entity comes in contact with nature, he gets conditioned by these three modes.'Of these three modes, sattva is the preferred one but even this binds us. Lord Krishna described the qualities of the one who transcended the modes of nature'Who does not hate attachment, delusion,illumination when they are present or wish for them when they are absent, who is unperturbed by the reactions of material qualities, remains neutral and transcendental, who regards happiness and sorrow alike,who looks upon a lump of earth, a stone, and a piece of gold equally,who is equal in desirable and undesirable situations,who is steady, deals equally in praise and blame, honor and dishonor,who treats friends and foes alike and who has renounced all the material activities, such a person is believed to have transcended the modes of nature. '(Gitaji 14, 22 to 25)"Gunatitah sa ucyate. " (Gitaji 14,25) means who have transcended the modes of nature, ( sattva, rajo, and tamo gunas). The way to transcend the modes of nature is through devotional service and total surrender to the Lord Krishna. Thank You,Hare Krishna. Prasad.A.Iragavarapu, M.D ----------------------------- Dear Ones, Namaste!Rajaji, as usual, initiates good dialogues among us, the seekers/lovers of truth, in his short but sweet style!I would share the way I understand it. It is not going to be much different than what we have been sharing lately in current topics. It seems as if we have handed over the Chariot of our Life over to Nature - Prakriti - Gunas to drive us around! We take ourselves to be body-mind, part of prakriti endowed with three Gunas. Naturally, then, when new body-mind organisms appear in it, we call it Births/rebirths and when they perish away back into Nature, we call it Deaths! Thus these Gunas, intrinsic to nature, keep recycling themselves which we call the cycle of Birth and Death. As we all know, pleasures and pains are inherent in such organisms. This is because in ignorance of not knowing their true nature being SELF, the IS-NESS that is Consciousness, they think and act as if whatever happens to body, happens to them. Thus, desires for pleasures keep them in the cycle of rebirths!I don't see that "being released from rebirth there is no desire to be inclined to Gunas". What I see is that when Realization happens, Self just gives up all identifications/inclinations with individual body-mind, and takes it true stand as Witnessing Presence, or In-dweller, Sakshi Chaitanyam, and obtains equanimity in all situations, meaning rising above the Gunas! At some point, Witnessing Presence and "witnessed" world merge, by realization that witnessed prakriti, too, is of the same substance as Presence, Consciousness Universal! Thus, there is nothing to witness, because Vasudevah Sarvam!It is important to know that even after Realization, Prakriti Gunas, as before, keep on recycling through new bodies, but Self knows body-mind is not its true nature! So, whatever happens to body-mind organism happens to prakriti and not to Him/Her, because there is no Him/Her anymore! Equanimity reins there or rather here and now! Prakriti keeps on unfolding as it does!!!Namaskar..........Pratap Bhatt -- There are three basic types of Gunas: sattva, rajas and tamas. Eac human being is imparted these three Gunas: person to person the strength or weakness or quality of these Gunas vary. It is because of the variation in the Guna quality combination, different people act differently under different circumstances. All these Gunas instill desire and ego of varying types in each human being. Atma however does not have these Gunas and is unaffected by them. When the ego, desires and perception of differences among entities in the Universe disappear, Atma is realized. When Atma is realized, the life of the guna-driven sensual desire-oriented senses, mind and intellect ends. This situation is of no birth and no death. Thus with Gunas gone, there is no birth and no death as one in always in the Atma-realized state. So long as Gunas continue to exert influence on body, mind and intellect, the pangs of worldy life has to be endured. Basudeb Sen"> -- Shree Hari Ram Ram How can one elaborate on Gunaateet? In fact Swamiji says so in Gita 14:25. Such a person has risen about the three gunas (modes of nature), rather transcended, therefore there cannot be any marks, qualities, descriptions, or any such thing. Marks, qualities, elaboration vest in modes of nature (prakriti). How can one who has marks, qualities etc.... transcend these gunas (qualities)? Even though when Arjuna inquired of the qualities of such a person, and Lord responded, in fact these are only qualities related to the inner faculites and body, giving only a hint of such a person. But this cannot be described / elaborated. This mind / intellect cannot even fully describe the modes which are their cause. How can they describe nature (prakriti) the cause of the modes ? Then how is it possible for these to describe / elaborate on one who has transcended the modes ? Meera Das, Ram Ram Please elaborate which sloka of Gita says this statement. Gaurav Mittal ----------- GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES: PLEASE - FOR QUESTIONER1. The questions as far as possible must be relevant to Gita, relevant toDharma, relavant to other scriptures and relevant to motivate Sadhaks to take upspiritual path2. The Questioner must commit to feedback at end of dicussion to bring closureand commit to daily Gita study3. Only one question at a time.4. Question must be brief, to the point and relevant to the group's primary aimof deeper understanding of Gita.GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES for RESPONDER: PLEASE -1. Only responses that further clarify Gita message will be posted.2. Quote Gitaji/scriptures wherever possible.3. RESPECT all Sadhaks. Limit personal feelings, opinions, beliefs etc. to theextent that they further help in understanding the Gita shlokas4. Be BRIEF, RELEVANT (stay with the subject being discussed only)5. Do not include links to the other sites; personal information (Ph #, addressetc) or personalize message to particular person6. All responses may not be posted.7. Please keep in mind novices, youth, westerners, non-sectarian audience. Limitthe use to Sanskrit words and provide English word bracketed.GITA TALK MODERATORSRam Ram------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------Post message: Subscribe: - Unsubscribe: - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 In Gitaji God says, regarding mode of purity (sattva), activity / passion (rajas) and inertia (tamas) that on having an inclination for these three modes of nature, there is no desire to be released from rebirth and on being released from rebirth there is no desire to be inclined to the three gunas (modes of nature). Kindly elaborate? Raja Gurdasani --------------- IN HINDI IN GITAJI GOD SAYS STVA, RAJ AUR TAM IN TEENO GUNO KE PRAVRAT HONE PAR NIVTRATI KI AKANSHA NAHI AUR NIVRAT HONE PAR PRAVRATI KI AKANSHA NAHI, KINDLY ELABORATE? RAJA GURDASANI =========================================== NEW POSTING ----------- I don't understand which sloka is being referred here. Gunateet is a person who is not affected or beyond by gunas. When you see yourself as atma beyond matter, then you won't be affected by inert matter or gunas. Swamiji says it again and again - Accept that you are not this inert world but you are part of Paramatma. Your body and this world belongs to Bhagavan. - Bhakti yog Accept that you are not this inert world but you are part of Paramatma. Your body and this world belongs to Samsara. - Karma yog Accept that you are not this inert world but you are part of Paramatma. Your body and this world belongs to Prakriti. - Jnana yog That is gunateet person. Gaurav Mittal --\ ---------------- Tamas, Rajas, Sattwa and beyond (TriguNaateeta) Polarities in our perception are generated due to the conflicts of interest we harbor within. The conflicts of interest arise from the bias we nurture within. The bias is rooted in the desire cluster we covet at the core of our existence. As soon as a biased perception is conceived in the cognition, its nemesis takes birth automatically at the very same instant. We name the two polarities as Rajas and Tamas - one inciting us into actions and the other inhibiting us from our activities. As a result, the two spur the individual into oscillatory existence between the two corresponding poles - the opposite pulling the individual away from wherever he/she tries to settle with. As a result, the individual remains unsettled, rather restless. An ignorant being could rip oneself apart from the mutually opposed forces generated in the restless conflict of existence. The nature has developed a third quality, which we call Sattwa, within that tries to balance between the opposed forces to safegaurd the sytematic integrity. We can imagine an individual as a magnet where the postivie and negative poles (Rajas and Tamas) are bonded by the stem (Sattwa). The magnet - our existential identity - becomes bigger and bigger as we get farther and farther from what we ARE ... as we collect newer and newer identities borrowing from our interaction with the world. As the magnet becomes bigger, the polarity becomes stronger and so is the need to balance the same. When the magnet grows beyond one's fathom, one looses to correlate the poles and hence looses the capacity to generate a balancing force between the two opposing poles and starts gravitating toward one of the poles helplessly. Though " a pole " is chosen as an existential identity, the other pole remains dormant in one's subconscious presence with pretty much equal potency. To complicate our existence further, we generate multiple magnets in multiple directions as the dimensions of our existence grow in our urge to propogate our identity in the existential world. As a result, we start drifting amongst the poles we have consciously gravitated in our apparent memory; and retain the set of their opposites intact at our inherent memory. As the poles are seggragated into relatively distinct compartments of our cognition - conscious and subconscious - we further loose our ability to relate the opposite poles. The only way that remains to discharge the opposites - one hovering in the conscious mind and the other hidden in the subconscious mind - into a balance, is to depend on the nature to mingle the two apparently distinct domains ... either in sleep ... or in death ... The magnet - our existential identity - becomes smaller and smaller as we get closer and closer to what we ARE. As the magnet becomes smaller, the polarity becomes weaker and so is the need to balance the same. In the limit of being just ourselves, the polarities as well as the balancing bond between the same become completely irrelevant and non-existent. This state is often referred to as the " TriguNaateeta Tattva " or " PoorNa Tattva " in an all-inclusive sense or " NirguNa Tattva " or " Shoonya Tattva " in an all-exclusive sense by our seers and their revelations. Respects Naga Narayana ------ Dear Sadaks, One who clearly understood and sticks to the understood matter of 24 Thatuvas is Gunaateeth. It is 24 Tattuvas. They are :- 1) Panch Pranas 5, Pancha Gosas 5, Karmendriyam 5, budthi, Manas, Chitta, sensory 5, athuman. These are in Geetha. How these are influenced, are told by Swamy Datatreya sitting under a tree as Avadoot to King Edthu Maharaj. 24 Gurus 2) Prithivi- Earth. 2)Vaayu- Breeze. 3) Akaash- Sky. 4) Aapaha- water. 5)Agni- Fir. 6)Chandra- Moon. 7) Surya –Sun. 8)Tapotaha- Dove. 9)Ajagaraha- Mountain Snake. 10)Sagaram- Sea. 11) Salabam- Flying ant. 12)Madhukrith- Bee. 13)Gajaha- Elephant. 14) Madhuhan- Hunter who collects honey. 15) Grahavena- Deer. 16) Meenaha- Fish. 17) Pingala- Prostitute. 18)Kuraram- A type of Bird. 19) Kuntha Pakchi- A type of Bird. 20)Arthaha- Child. 21)Kumar- Teen age girl. 22)Sarakrith- Diyanam (Meditation). 23)Sarpaha- Snake. 24) Uornanaabhi- Spider. How the first 24 correlates and shows one as 24 Gurus, can be posted with clear explanations and example, it is voluminous. These are off my mind. there may be mistakes, if so please excuse me. B.Sathyanarayan Contd ... How to attain TriguNaateeta? Spirituality is to acknowledge the facts as they are … we have created the magnets of identities with multi-polar contradictions knowingly (to start with) and unknowingly (as we expand and multiply our dominions of identities) … we are solely responsible for every seggregation of the polarities into conscious and subconscious domains of our existence ... and finally, since we have authored every polarity as such, we can potentially mitigate the same ... and, also, we being the sole authors of all these junk, nothing else can access these polarities ... Therefore, the way to get out of the clutches of the desires and fears is to appreciate their very root cause that is the source for their perpetual nourishment - the bias apparent in one's wakeful state as well as its conjugate lost in the oblivion of one's sleepful state, the Vaasanaas - the behaviors and the conjugate instincts. Their very existence also indicates their whereabouts, whatabouts as well as whyabouts if we truthfully seek to know. The electable (Shreya) is verily different from the delectable (Preya) in life. The former educates us how not to develop polar attitude in our day-to-day activities. The later instigates us to collect more garbage in terms of contradictory behaviors and attitudes. Therefore, a wise seeker would obviously choose the electable while an ignorant man running behind his craves would fall a prey to the delectable for procreating the identities further. Anyacchreyo'nyadutaiva preyah te ubhe naanaarthe purusham sineetah | Tayosshreya aadadaanasya sadhu bhavati heeyate'rthaadya u preyo vrineete || Every occasion with this world as well as with ourselves always proposes the two choices to us - electable and delectable. A truthful seeker would differentiate the two choices with utter clarity while a mundane living would probably fail to distinguish them. Shreyashcha preyashcha manushyametat tou sampareetya vivinakti dheerah | The ignorants who crave to acquire and safegaurd their identities would go behind the delectable choice in life that strengthens and promotes the bias and polarities within. We have been vested with the Saattwic power (we call it wisdom, Viveka) which always acts in the crisis to alleviate us from the miserable positions we subject ourselves into. If we have the authority over the polarities we nurture, we should be able to excercize our authority over them to identify and mitigate the polarities by applying the Saattwic power vested in us proactively. That is the electable choice that reduces the polarities and hence our affinity to and dependence on the three GuNas ... to attain the state that transcends all the GuNas altogether. Shreyohi dheero'bhipreyaso vriNeete preyo mando yogakshemaadvriNeete || One who is awake sleepfully as well as sleeping wakefully verily transcends both the sleep (Tamas) as well as the wakefulness (Rajas) and hence transcends the balancing virtue of Sattva as well. The Shreyas is in appreciating the bliss of sleep while awake and the awareness of wakeful state while sleeping simultaneously. Respects. Naga Narayana. ------- My friends,Atma and Prakriti are two creations of the Lord/Eesvara/Parama Atma. Of these,Prakriti is inferior and apart from the matter Rayi and Prana (see 1.4 ofPrasnopanishat). Atma is gifeted with chetas and Prakriti is Jada. Originalstate of Atma is to be ever in service of Parama Atma and contemplateperennially on IT. Prakriti made of material has three lieutenants called Gunas.They are satva, Rajas and tamas. These Gunas press on any object that is incontact with them. Due to the presence of Prakriti and its proximity to Atma,the three gunas try to impress on Atma also. An Atma which is aware of its truenature and job refuses to be influenced by the triad. But mostly Atmas allowthemselves to be impressed a litttle to begin with. The contact creates subtleimpressions on the knowledge or chetana of Atma. These subtle impressions arecalled Vaasana.These Vaasanas, force the Atma to enter a suitable body. Once in a Prakriti madeBody, the Atma faces a more dangerous situation because Indriyas of the bod areenemy (Prakrit) agents and they feed Mana with false input and pushes Atma intothe ignorance that it is body and the three Gunas are its friends and lovers.These three Gunas are difficult to be rid off. Once Atma gains knowledge ofitself and realizes that it is subordinating to an inferior entity, it tries tobe independent of the three Gunas. The success is not easy. When the Atma winsthe battle against the 3 gunas, it is Gunaateeta. Once, this is achieved, Atmadissociates from the mundane body and hence is not bothered by its desires,aspirations, successes and failures. It looks at materially precious Gold andordinary mud alike.A triguna ateeta Atma has only one desire that is to be back in its originalstate of perennial contemplation on Parama Atma.Krishnam Vande Jagad Gurumkrishna samudrala ------------------ Dear Sadhakas, Hare Krishna. This is in response to a question from a Sadhaka. Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita, " Sattvam rajas tama iti, Gunah prakrti sambhavah Nibadhnanti maha baho, Dehe dehinam avyayam " (Gitaji 14,5) Which means, 'Material nature consists of mode of goodness(sattvika),passion(rajo),ignorance(tamasa). When the living entity comes in contact with nature, he gets conditioned by these three modes.' Of these three modes, sattva is the preferred one but even this binds us. Lord Krishna described the qualities of the one who transcended the modes of nature 'Who does not hate attachment, delusion,illumination when they are present or wish for them when they are absent, who is unperturbed by the reactions of material qualities, remains neutral and transcendental, who regards happiness and sorrow alike,who looks upon a lump of earth, a stone, and a piece of gold equally,who is equal in desirable and undesirable situations,who is steady, deals equally in praise and blame, honor and dishonor,who treats friends and foes alike and who has renounced all the material activities, such a person is believed to have transcended the modes of nature. ' (Gitaji 14, 22 to 25) " Gunatitah sa ucyate. " (Gitaji 14,25) means who have transcended the modes of nature, ( sattva, rajo, and tamo gunas). The way to transcend the modes of nature is through devotional service and total surrender to the Lord Krishna. Thank You, Hare Krishna. Prasad.A.Iragavarapu, M.D ----------------------------- Dear Ones, Namaste! Rajaji, as usual, initiates good dialogues among us, the seekers/lovers of truth, in his short but sweet style! I would share the way I understand it. It is not going to be much different than what we have been sharing lately in current topics. It seems as if we have handed over the Chariot of our Life over to Nature - Prakriti - Gunas to drive us around! We take ourselves to be body-mind, part of prakriti endowed with three Gunas. Naturally, then, when new body-mind organisms appear in it, we call it Births/rebirths and when they perish away back into Nature, we call it Deaths! Thus these Gunas, intrinsic to nature, keep recycling themselves which we call the cycle of Birth and Death. As we all know, pleasures and pains are inherent in such organisms. This is because in ignorance of not knowing their true nature being SELF, the IS-NESS that is Consciousness, they think and act as if whatever happens to body, happens to them. Thus, desires for pleasures keep them in the cycle of rebirths! I don't see that " being released from rebirth there is no desire to be inclined to Gunas " . What I see is that when Realization happens, Self just gives up all identifications/inclinations with individual body-mind, and takes it true stand as Witnessing Presence, or In-dweller, Sakshi Chaitanyam, and obtains equanimity in all situations, meaning rising above the Gunas! At some point, Witnessing Presence and " witnessed " world merge, by realization that witnessed prakriti, too, is of the same substance as Presence, Consciousness Universal! Thus, there is nothing to witness, because Vasudevah Sarvam! It is important to know that even after Realization, Prakriti Gunas, as before, keep on recycling through new bodies, but Self knows body-mind is not its true nature! So, whatever happens to body-mind organism happens to prakriti and not to Him/Her, because there is no Him/Her anymore! Equanimity reins there or rather here and now! Prakriti keeps on unfolding as it does!!! Namaskar..........Pratap Bhatt -- There are three basic types of Gunas: sattva, rajas and tamas. Eac human being is imparted these three Gunas: person to person the strength or weakness or quality of these Gunas vary. It is because of the variation in the Guna quality combination, different people act differently under different circumstances. All these Gunas instill desire and ego of varying types in each human being. Atma however does not have these Gunas and is unaffected by them. When the ego, desires and perception of differences among entities in the Universe disappear, Atma is realized. When Atma is realized, the life of the guna-driven sensual desire-oriented senses, mind and intellect ends. This situation is of no birth and no death. Thus with Gunas gone, there is no birth and no death as one in always in the Atma-realized state. So long as Gunas continue to exert influence on body, mind and intellect, the pangs of worldy life has to be endured. Basudeb Sen " > -- Shree Hari Ram Ram How can one elaborate on Gunaateet? In fact Swamiji says so in Gita 14:25. Such a person has risen about the three gunas (modes of nature), rather transcended, therefore there cannot be any marks, qualities, descriptions, or any such thing. Marks, qualities, elaboration vest in modes of nature (prakriti). How can one who has marks, qualities etc.... transcend these gunas (qualities)? Even though when Arjuna inquired of the qualities of such a person, and Lord responded, in fact these are only qualities related to the inner faculites and body, giving only a hint of such a person. But this cannot be described / elaborated. This mind / intellect cannot even fully describe the modes which are their cause. How can they describe nature (prakriti) the cause of the modes ? Then how is it possible for these to describe / elaborate on one who has transcended the modes ? Meera Das, Ram Ram Please elaborate which sloka of Gita says this statement. Gaurav Mittal ----------- GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES: PLEASE - FOR QUESTIONER 1. The questions as far as possible must be relevant to Gita, relevant to Dharma, relavant to other scriptures and relevant to motivate Sadhaks to take up spiritual path 2. The Questioner must commit to feedback at end of dicussion to bring closure and commit to daily Gita study 3. Only one question at a time. 4. Question must be brief, to the point and relevant to the group's primary aim of deeper understanding of Gita. GITA TALK GROUP GUIDELINES for RESPONDER: PLEASE - 1. Only responses that further clarify Gita message will be posted. 2. Quote Gitaji/scriptures wherever possible. 3. RESPECT all Sadhaks. Limit personal feelings, opinions, beliefs etc. to the extent that they further help in understanding the Gita shlokas 4. Be BRIEF, RELEVANT (stay with the subject being discussed only) 5. Do not include links to the other sites; personal information (Ph #, address etc) or personalize message to particular person 6. All responses may not be posted. 7. Please keep in mind novices, youth, westerners, non-sectarian audience. Limit the use to Sanskrit words and provide English word bracketed. GITA TALK MODERATORS Ram Ram ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- Post message: Subscribe: - Un: - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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