Sri Bhagavan said:
I shall tell you once more the Supreme knowledge that is quite different from what has been hitherto described, having known which all sages have attained the perfect stage after this life.
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Having resorted to this knowledge and secured a form like mine, they are not born even at the time of creation nor suffer pain at the time of dissolution of the world i.e having obtained moksha or final liberation.
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O Bharata, the intelligent Prakrti is My wife and in that Prakrti I deposit the Germ and from it comes the birth of all beings.
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O Kunti's Son, in whatever wombs these beings are born, Mahalaksmi is their womb and I, the Father, the giver of the germ.
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O mighty armed Arjuna, the gunas produced out of non-intelligent Prakrti Satva, Rajas and Tamas -presided over by Sri, Bhu and Durga bind down the imperishable dweller -the Jiva in the body.
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O sinless One, of these Satva being pure, illuminating and healthy, binds the soul of the devas with attachment to happiness and knowledge.
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O Kunti's son, know that rajas is in the form of Passion and is the source of craving and attachment. It binds the dweller of the body with attachment to action.
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O Bharata, know that tamas is the source of ignorance and deludes all embodied beings and binds them with tendency to negligence, indolence and sleep.
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O Bharata, Satva tends one to happiness, Rajas to action. While Tamas obstructing the power of mind to obtain true knowledge attaches one to unrighteous action.
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O Bharata, Satva prevails when it overpowers Rajas and Tamas; Rajas prevails when it over powers Satva and Tamas; and like wise , tamas prevails when it overpowers Satva and Rajas.
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When the light streams forth through all the gates of the body then it may be known that Satva has become dominant.
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O best of Bharatas, greed, useless activity, performance of action with desire, restlessness; craving for more are born when Rajas predominates.
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O son of the Kurus, absence of knowledge, absence of activity, carelessness and also delusion result when Tamas predominates.
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If when Satva prevails, the embodied soul leaves the body, then he is re-born in the families of pure spirited seers that know the Lord.
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By dying when rajas prevails he is born again in among those attached to action, and by dying when tamas prevails, among the races of Daityas.
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It is said that the fruit of good action is of satvic nature and spotless; where as the fruit of rajasic action is misery and of tamasic action ignorance.
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From satvaguna, knowledge of the supreme being is born; from Rajas desire for Svarga and from Tamas are born carelessness, delusion and ignorance.
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Those that are fixed in satva go upwards to the regions called Jnanaloca and those above it; those of Rajas performing actions with desire remain in the middle regions - Svarga - While those of Tamas go down to hell.
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When the seer perceives that no agent other than the trigunas is the modifying cause and also that I am for Higher than the Trigunas and independent, he attains mukti - the state of being in Me.
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When the embodied soul overpowers these three qualities that reveal themselves in the bodies sprung out of them, he becomes liberated from birth, death, old age and misery and attains Para Brahman.
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Arjuna said:
What are characteristics of him who has overcome the three qualities O Lord? What is his course of conduct? By what means does he overcome these three qualities?
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Sri Bhagavan said:
O Partha, he that has transcended the three gunas or qualities does not hate the worldly knowledge arising from the satva quality nor the activities due to the rajasic quality not the delusion born of tamasic quality, nor does he long for these when they have disappeared.
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He who is not agitated by these gunas remains indifferent to them firmly knowing that the gunas are acting under the direction of the Lord and will not do actions that do not please God.
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He who considers sensual pleasure as pain, who is unchanged, to whom a lump of earth, stone and gold are all alike, to whom the loved and the unloved, praise and censure, are always the same, who is firm minded in God, who feels the same when honored or dishonored, the same to friend and foe and who has given up undertakings except those intended for the Lord, is known as the one that has transcended the influence of the three gunas.
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He who serves Me exclusively with unswerving devotion overcomes the bondage produced by the three gunas and becomes fit to enter and remain in that Prakrti.
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I am the real supporter of Mahalakshmi and of the imperishable and the immortalized released souls and also of the eternal dharma and of absolute bliss.
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Thus ends the fourteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita entitled "The Prakrti Guna Traya Vibhaga Yoga".
