Bhagavat Gita - 50

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Bhagavat Gita - 50

 

Who is a Trigunatita? (Chapter 14 verses 21-27)

 

Arjuna now asks what are the signs of a Trigunatita, and the

account given in reply is not much different from that of

Sthitaprajna (Chapter 2 verses 55-72) and the Bhakta

(Chapter 12 verses 13-20). The Trigunatita is thus described:

He never identifies himself with the passing moods of elation,

excitement and depression, which are the characteristics of the

body-mind. In all disturbances of the mental and physical

environment, he remains unperturbed, seeing in them only

movements of Prakruthi and not of himself. He is alike in pleasure

and pain, to friend and foe, and he never feels he is the

doer of anything. It is only one who serves Me with unswerving

and exclusive devotion that can thus hope to overcome the dominance

of the Gunas; for I, the Lord of all, is the one on whom the

Brahman-state has its foundation.

 

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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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