Lord SriKrishna says this further to Arjuna: I shall now
explain the supreme wisdom through which all sages attained perfection. The
Brahman is the source of birth. All
species arise from material nature of whom I’m, the seed giving father. The
three modes of material nature viz. sativa, rajas and tamas, condition the
living entity when he/she comes in contact with nature.
Of these, sattva, the mode of goodness is pure and
enlightening and without sorrow. Rajas, the mode of passion leads to unlimited
yearnings and attachments, hence one gets attached to material actions. Tamas is the mode of ignorance that deludes
all people. It results in madness and laziness. In short, the mode of goodness
binds one to happiness, the mode of passion to fruitive action and the mode of
ignorance to madness.
There is always a fight among the modes for supremacy.
Sometimes sattva predominates and sometimes it’s rajas or tamas. When one dies
under the mode of Sattva, he achieves the world of great sages. When one dies
in rajas, he is born among those engaged in fruitive activity. When somebody
dies in the mode of tamas, he is born into a mode of delusion.
From sattva understanding is born, from rajas, materialism and
from tamas, foolishness. Those established in sattva, ascend to higher planets.
Those in rajas, remain on earth and those in tamas descend to hellish planets.
When an embodied being transcends these three modes of material existence,
he/she is freed from birth, death, old age and illness and is able to enjoy
life.
Arjuna asks the Lord as to how we can identify somebody who
has transcended the modes of nature, and
Lord SriKrishna replies that the
person who does not hate illumination, attachment and one who is undisturbed by
the modes of nature, who remains unwavering and the one to whom a lump of
earth, stone and gold are the same, who regards the desirable and the
undesirable equally, who is steadfast and not bothered by blame or praise, to
whom honor and dishonor mean the same, treats friends and enemies alike, and
one who has renounced all material undertakings, such a person has transcended
the three modes of nature and achieves me.
Have no doubt about this.
To your transcendence …
Guru30
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