Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14 – Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga
The three modes of material nature — sattva, rajas and tamas.
27 verses
All verses of this chapter
- 14.1 – श्रीभगवानुवाच – The Blessed Lord said: I shall once again declare to you that supreme knowledge, the finest of all…
- 14.2 – इदं ज्ञानमुपाश्रित्य मम साधर्म्यमागताः – Those who take refuge in this knowledge and attain a nature like Mine are not born even at the time of…
- 14.3 – मम योनिर्महद् ब्रह्म तस्मिन्गर्भं – My womb is the great Brahman, primordial nature; in it I place the seed.
- 14.4 – सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति – O son of Kunti, whatever forms are born in all the different wombs, the great Brahman (nature) is their…
- 14.5 – सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः – O mighty-armed one, sattva, rajas and tamas, these gunas born of nature, bind the imperishable embodied soul…
- 14.6 – तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम् – Of these, O sinless one, sattva, being pure, is illuminating and free from affliction; yet it binds through…
- 14.7 – रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् – Know rajas to be of the nature of passion, the source of craving and attachment.
- 14.8 – तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम् – But know tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings.
- 14.9 – सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः – Sattva attaches one to happiness, rajas to action, O Bharata; but tamas, veiling knowledge, attaches one to…
- 14.10 – रजस्तमश्चाभिभूय सत्त्वं भवति भारत – Sometimes sattva prevails, O Bharata, overpowering rajas and tamas; sometimes rajas prevails, overpowering…
- 14.11 – सर्वद्वारेषु देहेऽस्मिन्प्रकाश उपजायते – When the light of knowledge shines through all the gates of this body, then one should know that sattva has…
- 14.12 – लोभः प्रवृत्तिरारम्भः कर्मणामशमः स्पृहा – Greed, constant activity, the undertaking of actions, restlessness and longing: these arise when rajas…
- 14.13 – अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव – Darkness, inertia, heedlessness and delusion: these arise when tamas increases, O joy of the Kurus.
- 14.14 – यदा सत्त्वे प्रवृद्धे तु – When the embodied one meets death while sattva predominates, he attains the pure worlds of those who know…
- 14.15 – रजसि प्रलयं गत्वा कर्मसङ्गिषु – Meeting death in rajas, one is born among those attached to action; and dying in tamas, one is born in the…
- 14.16 – कर्मणः सुकृतस्याहुः सात्त्विकं निर्मलं – The sages say that the fruit of good (sattvic) action is pure and sattvic; the fruit of rajas is pain, and…
- 14.17 – सत्त्वात्सञ्जायते ज्ञानं रजसो लोभ – From sattva arises knowledge, and from rajas greed; from tamas arise heedlessness and delusion, and…
- 14.18 – ऊर्ध्वं गच्छन्ति सत्त्वस्था मध्ये – Those established in sattva rise upward; the rajasic remain in the middle; and the tamasic, abiding in the…
- 14.19 – नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा – When the seer beholds no agent other than the gunas and knows That which is beyond the gunas, he attains My…
- 14.20 – गुणानेतानतीत्य त्रीन्देही देहसमुद्भवान् – Having transcended these three gunas, out of which the body is born, the embodied soul is freed from birth…
- 14.21 – अर्जुन उवाच – Arjuna said: O Lord, by what marks is one known who has gone beyond these three gunas? What is his conduct?
- 14.22 – श्रीभगवानुवाच – The Blessed Lord said: O Pandava, he does not hate illumination, activity or delusion when they arise, nor…
- 14.23 – उदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते – He who sits like one unconcerned, undisturbed by the gunas, who stays firm knowing that it is only the gunas…
- 14.24 – समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः – He who is the same in pain and pleasure, established in the Self, to whom a clod of earth, a stone and gold…
- 14.25 – मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः – He who is the same in honour and dishonour, the same towards friend and foe, and who has given up all…
- 14.26 – मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन – And he who serves Me with unswerving devotion, rising fully above these gunas, becomes fit for becoming…
- 14.27 – ब्रह्मणो हि प्रतिष्ठाहममृतस्याव्ययस्य च – For I am the foundation of Brahman, the immortal and imperishable, of eternal dharma, and of absolute bliss.