LOTUS GITA- A PATH TO SALVATION

CHAPTER-XIV- TRIANGLE OF PROPERTIES (THREE GUNA) (1-27)

1-4 Importance of knowledge, creation of world through
Nature and Human being
Shri bhagavan uvacha
14.1. parambhuyah pravakshyami
gyananam gyanamuttamam
yat gyatva munayah sarve
param siddhimiti gatah
Sri Bhagavan said:
I shall discuss again the supreme and best knowledge, after acquiring that all sages have attained absolute perfection.
14.2. idam gyanam upashritya
mam sadharmyam agatah
sarge api na upajayante
pralaye na vyathanti cha
Whoever, with the help of this knowledge,dissolve in Me are salvated and never feel feel disturbed even during the Great Destruction period.
14.3. mama yoni mahat brahman
tasmin gurbham dadhami aham
sambhavah sarvabhutanam tatah
bhavati bharata
Arjun! My original nature is known as womb; in that womb I place the seed of life. The creation of all beings follows from that union.
14.4. sarvayonishu kaunteya
murtayah sambhavanti yah
tasam brahman mahat yonih
aham beejapradah pitah
Arjun! In all wombs of embodied beings there appear all the species of various kinds and basic Nature is the conceiving Mother, while I am the seed-giving Father.
5-18 Triangle of properties
14.5. satvam rajah tamah iti
gunah prakritisambhavah
nibandhanti mahabaho
dehe dehinam avyayam
Arjun! Sattva, Rajas and Tamas are three properties born of Nature and they tie down the imperishable soul to the body.
14.6. tatra satvam nirmalvat
prakashkam anamayam
sukhasangena badhanati
gyansangena cha anagh
Arjun! Of these Sattva, being pure, is illuminating and faultless, it binds body through attachment with joy and knowledge.
14.7. rajah nagatmakam viddhih
trishna sangasamudbhavam
tat nibandhati kaunteya
karmasanseva dehinam
Arjuna! The quality of Rajas is to be understood as the cause of desire and attachment. It binds the soul through attachment towards actions.
14.8. tamah tu agyanajam
viddhi mohanam sarvadehinam
pramadalsya nidrabhih tata
nibandhati bharata
And Arjun! Tamas as the deluder of all those who look upon the Physical body as their own self is known as born out of ignorance. That binds the soul through proudness, idleness and sleep.
14.9. sattvam sukhe sanjayati
rajah karmani bharata
gyanam avritya tu tamah
pramade sanjayati ut
Arjun! Sattva commands one through engaging him into joy, Rajas engages him into action but Tamas engages one into proud and clouds his knowledge to win over him.
14.10. rajah tamah cha abhibhuya
satvam bhavati bharata
rajah satvam tamah cha eva
Tamah Satvam Rajastatha
Arjun! Sattve supersedes Rajas and Tamas through their control, Rajas prevail after overpowering Sattva and Tamas, similarly overpowering Sattva and Rajas, Tamas prevails.
14.11. saruadvaveshu dehe asmin
prakashah upjayate
gyanam yada tada vidyat
vivridham satnam iti ut
When light and conscience arise in every part of the human body then it should know that Sattva is predominant.
14.12. lobhah pravitrih arambhah
karmanam ashavnah spriha
rajasi etani jayante
virridhe bharatavshabhah
Arjun! With the increase of Rajas, greed, restlessness and demands activity arise.
14.13. aprakashah apravitih cha
pramadah mohah eva cha
tamasi etami jayante
vivridhe kurunandan
Arjun! Growth of Tamas tends to bring confusion, inaction, proud and attachment.
14.14. yata satve pravridhe tu
prakyam yati dehbhrit
tada uttamvidam lokan
amalan pratipadhyate
When a man dies during the perid of increased Sattva, he becomes entitled for the blotless place achieved by men of noble deeds.
14.15. rajasi pralayam gatva
karmasangishu jayate
tatha pralinah tamasi
mudhayonishu jayate
Dying during increase Rajas , he reborns among those attached to action; similarly a man dying during the period of increased Tamas reborns in the species of stupid creatures.
14.16. karmanah sukritasya ahuh
satvika nirmalam phalam
rajasah tu phelam duhkham
agyanam tamasah phalam
Wise men say that outcome of righteous act is Sattvika and Faultless; sorrowness is said to be the result of a Rajas action and nonsense is the consequence of Tamas action.
14.17. satvat sanjayate gyanam
rajasah lobhah eva cha
pramadmoha tamasah bhavatah
agyanam eva cha
Knowledge follows from Sattva and greed from Rajas, likewise obstinate, attachment and also ignorance follow from Tamas.
14.18. urdham gachhanti satvasthah
madhye tisthanti rajasah
jaghanya gunavritisthah
adhah gachhanti tamasah
Those who abide in the Sattva make their way towards salvation; while those of Rajas status reborn on this earth. And those of sinful Tamas followers sink downwards enveloped in the effects of Tamoguna.
19-27 Means to find God and identification of perfect quality Person
14.19. na anyamgunebhyah kartaram
yada dristva anupashyati
gunebhyah cha parava vetti
madbhavan sah adhigachhati
When a Wiseman perceive no doer other than these three Gunas, and make himself standing entirely beyond these Gunas, he enters into My Supreme form.
14.20. gunam etam atitya trini
dehi dehsamudhavana
gunvna mrityajara duhkhaih
vinuktah amritam ashnute
A Wiseman ignoring the aforesaid three Gunas that have created the body, liberates himself from all kinds of sorrows of birth, death, old age attains salvation.
Arjuna uvacha
14.21. kaih lingaih trina gunana
etan atitah bhavati prabho
kimachavah katham cha etan
trini gunan ativartate
Arjuna asked:
What are the signs and conduct of a person who has risen above the three Gunas? And how one can rise above the three Gunas?
Shri bhagavan uvacha
14.22. prakasham cha pravritim cha
mohameva cha pandava
na dvesti sam pravittani ha
nivritani kanchhati
Sri Krishna said:
Arjuna! One who does not hate light, tendency and attachment (born of all three Gunas) when prevalent and does not desire for them when they have ceased.
14.23. udasinvat asinah gunaih
yah na vichalyate
gunah vartante eti eva yah
avatisthati na ingate
One who is static unattached and cannot not be disturbed by the Gunas, behaves as if the Gunas are moving within the Gunas and remains established in his own identity unmovingly.
14.24. samadukhsukhah swasthah
samaloshtashanakanchanah
tulyapriyapriyah dhirah
tulyaninda tma sanstutih
14.25. manapamanyoh tulyah
tulyah mitraripapakshayoh
sarvarambha parityasi
gunatitah sah uchyate
One Static person who is ever established in his own identity taking sorrows and joy alike, regards a clod of earth, a stone and a piece of gold as equal in value, equal with favorables and unfavorables, views censure and praise alike, remains indifferent to honour and ignominy, alike to the cause of a friend as well as to that of an enemy and has renounced the sense of beginership in all undertakings; is said to have risen above the three Gunas.
14.26. mam cha yat avyabhichavena
bhaktiyogena sevate
sah gunan samatitya etan
brahma bhuyay kalpate
And one who constantly worships Me through the Yoga of uncorrupted devotion - transcending these three Gunas, he becomes eligible for attaining Salvation.
14.27. brahmanah hi pratistha aham
amritasya avyayasya cha
shashvatasya cha dharmasya
sukhasyai kantikasya cha
Because, Brahma, imperishable immortality, perpetual religion and unending immutable joy are sustained by Me.

The Fourteenth Chapter of the Science of Bramha and the scripture of yoga in the glorious Upnishad of Shree Mad Bhagvat Gita titled "The Yoga of Classification of the three Gunas." A dialogue between Shri Krishna and Arjuna finishes here