Guest guest Posted December 24, 2002 Report Share Posted December 24, 2002 Bhagavat Gita - 49 The Lord as the Universal Father (Chapter 14 verses 1-5) Shri Krishna said; I shall declare to you that knowledge by which you can attain unity in nature with Me. My Nature is the universal womb in which I place the seed. From this all beings are born and therefore know that beings born of all wombs, are born of my universal womb, and I am their originating father. The Three Gunas of Nature and their functions (Chapter 14 verses 6-20) This Nature of mine has three aspects known as Gunas - Constituents or Dispositions - Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, charecterised by expressions like purity, passion and dullness i.e., happiness, energy and delusion respectively. Everything in life is bound and dominated by these Gunas, and man's life and action, and his progress hereafter, are determined by the ramifying influence of these on him. He is the wise man who is able to perceive that all the movements of his body-mind are really the movements of these Gunas of which it is constituted, and that he, the real he, trancends them. When this illumination dwans, the Jiva is fit for the Immortal State. One who has thus risen above the Gunas is called Trigunatita. ============================================================================ Based on " Srimad Bhagavat Gita - The Scripture of Mankind " a translation by Rev Swami Tapasyanandaji, published by Sri Ramakrishna Math - Chennai. http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/ -- --------------- Email: gokulmuthu Webpage: http://www.geocities.com/gokulmuthu/ --------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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