Bhagavat Gita - 49

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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.

 

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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/

 

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