Chapter 14
गुणत्रयविभागयोग
Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga
The fourteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita is "Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga". In this chapter, Krishna reveals the three gunas (modes) of the material nature - goodness, passion and ignorance which everything in the material existence is influenced by. He further explains the essential characteristics of each of these modes, their cause and how they influence a living entity affected by them. He then reveals the various characteristics of the persons who have gone beyond these gunas. The chapter ends with Krishna reminding us of the power of pure devotion to God and how attachment to God can help us transcend these gunas.
श्रीभगवानुवाच |...
14.1 The Blessed Lord said I will again declare (to thee) that supreme knowledge, the best of all k...
इदं ज्ञानमुपाश्रित्य मम साधर्म्यमागताः |...
14.2 They who, having taken refuge in this knowledge, have attained to unity with Me, are neither bo...
मम योनिर्महद् ब्रह्म तस्मिन्गर्भं दधाम्यहम् |...
14.3 My womb is the great Brahma; in that I place the germ; thence, O Arjuna, is the birth of all be...
सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः |...
14.4 Whatever forms are produced, O Arjuna, in any womb whatsoever, the great Brahma is their womb a...
सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसम्भवाः |...
14.5 Purity, passion and inertia these alities, O Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the body, th...
तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम् |...
14.6 Of these, Sattva, which from its stainlessness is luminous and healthy, binds by attachment to ...
रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् |...
14.7 Know thou Rajas to be of the nature of passion, the source of thirst (for sensual enjoyment) an...
तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम् |...
14.8 But know thou Tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds fast, O Arj...
सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः कर्मणि भारत |...
14.9 Sattva attaches to happiness, Rajas to action, O Arjuna, while Tamas verily shrouding knowledge...
रजस्तमश्चाभिभूय सत्त्वं भवति भारत |...
14.10 Now Sattva arises (prevails), O Arjuna, having overpowered Rajas and Tamas; nor Rajas, having ...
सर्वद्वारेषु देहेऽस्मिन्प्रकाश उपजायते |...
14.11 When through every gate (sense) in this body, the wisdom-light shines, then it may be known th...
लोभः प्रवृत्तिरारम्भः कर्मणामशमः स्पृहा |...
14.12 Greed, activity, the undertaking of actions, restlessness, longing these arise when Rajas is ...
अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च |...
14.13 Darkness, inertness, heedlessness and delusion these arise when Tamas is predominant, O Arjun...
यदा सत्त्वे प्रवृद्धे तु प्रलयं याति देहभृत् |...
14.14 If the embodied one meets with death when Sattva is predominant, then he attains to the spotle...
रजसि प्रलयं गत्वा कर्मसङ्गिषु जायते |...
14.15 Meeting death in Rajas, he is born among those who are attached to action; and dying in Tamas,...
कर्मणः सुकृतस्याहुः सात्त्विकं निर्मलं फलम् |...
14.16 The fruit of good action, they say, is Sattvic and pure, verily the fruit of Rajas is pain, an...
सत्त्वात्सञ्जायते ज्ञानं रजसो लोभ एव च |...
14.17 From Sattva arises knowledge, and greed from Rajas; heedlessness and delusion arise from Tamas...
ऊर्ध्वं गच्छन्ति सत्त्वस्था मध्ये तिष्ठन्ति राजसाः |...
14.18 Those who are seated in Sattva go upwards; the Rajasic dwell in the middle; and the Tamasic, a...
नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति |...
14.19 When the seer beholds no agent other than the Gunas and knows That which is higher than they, ...
गुणानेतानतीत्य त्रीन्देही देहसमुद्भवान् |...
14.20 The embodied one having crossed beyond these three Gunas out of which the body is evolved, is ...
अर्जुन उवाच |...
14.21 Arjuna said What are the marks of him who has transcended the three alities, O Lord? What is ...
श्रीभगवानुवाच |...
14.22 The Blessed Lord said When light, activity and delusion are present, he hates them not, nor d...
उदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते |...
14.23 He who, seated like one unconcerned, is not moved by the alities, and who, knowing that the al...
समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः |...
14.24 Who is the same in pleasure and pain, who dwells in the Self, to whom a clod of earth, stone a...
मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः |...
14.25 Who is the same in honour and dishonour, the same to friend and foe, abandoning all undertakin...
मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते |...
14.26 And he who serves Me with unswerving devotion, he, crossing beyond the alities, is fit for bec...
ब्रह्मणो हि प्रतिष्ठाहममृतस्याव्ययस्य च |...
14.27 For I am the abode of Brahman, the immortal and the immutable, of everlasting Dharma and of ab...