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Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 14

Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga

The Three Gunas

Three strands — sattva (clarity), rajas (restlessness), tamas (inertia) — weave every mood, motive, and personality. The chapter teaches their signatures, their traps, and the freedom beyond all three.

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Gita 14.1-2paraṃ bhūyaḥ pravakṣyāmi jñānānāṃ jñānamuttamam | yajjñātvā munayaḥ sarve parāṃ …The Blessed Lord said: I shall declare again the supreme knowledge, best of all knowledges, knowing which all the sages …Gita 14.3-4mama yonirmahad brahma tasmingarbhaṃ dadhāmyaham | sambhavaḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ tato …My womb is the great Brahma (nature); in that I place the germ, and from that comes the birth of all beings, O Bharata. …Gita 14.5sattvaṃ rajastama iti guṇāḥ prakṛtisambhavāḥ | nibadhnanti mahābāho dehe dehinam…Sattva, rajas, tamas, these gunas born of nature bind the imperishable embodied one in the body, O mighty-armed one.Gita 14.6-8tatra sattvaṃ nirmalatvātprakāśakamanāmayam | sukhasaṅgena badhnāti jñānasaṅgena…Of these, sattva, being stainless, luminous, and free from disease, binds by attachment to happiness and attachment to k…Gita 14.9-10sattvaṃ sukhe sañjayati rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata | jñānamāvṛtya tu tamaḥ pramāde sa…Sattva attaches one to happiness, rajas to action, O Bharata, while tamas, veiling knowledge, attaches one to negligence…Gita 14.11-13sarvadvāreṣu dehe'sminprakāśa upajāyate | jñānaṃ yadā tadā vidyādvivṛddhaṃ sattv…When the light of knowledge shines through all the gates of this body, then it should be known that sattva is dominant. …Gita 14.14-15yadā sattve pravṛddhe tu pralayaṃ yāti dehabhṛt | tadottamavidāṃ lokānamalānprat…If the embodied one meets dissolution when sattva is dominant, then one attains the stainless worlds of the knowers of t…Gita 14.16-18karmaṇaḥ sukṛtasyāhuḥ sāttvikaṃ nirmalaṃ phalam | rajasastu phalaṃ duḥkhamajñāna…The fruit of good action, they say, is sattvic and stainless; the fruit of rajas is pain; and the fruit of tamas is igno…Gita 14.19-20nānyaṃ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraṃ yadā draṣṭānupaśyati | guṇebhyaśca paraṃ vetti madbhāv…When the seer beholds no agent other than the gunas and knows That which is higher than the gunas, such a one attains My…Gita 14.21kairliṅgaistrīnguṇānetānatīto bhavati prabho | kimācāraḥ kathaṃ caitāṃstrīnguṇān…Arjuna said: By what marks is one known who has transcended these three gunas, O Lord? What is such a one's conduct, and…Gita 14.22-25prakāśaṃ ca pravṛttiṃ ca mohameva ca pāṇḍava | na dveṣṭi sampravṛttāni na nivṛtt…The Blessed Lord said: One who hates not illumination, activity, and delusion when present, nor longs for them when abse…Gita 14.26māṃ ca yo'vyabhicāreṇa bhaktiyogena sevate | sa guṇānsamatītyaitānbrahmabhūyāya …And one who serves Me with unswerving devotion, crossing beyond the gunas, becomes fit for the state of Brahman.Gita 14.27brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāhamamṛtasyāvyayasya ca | śāśvatasya ca dharmasya sukhasyaik…For I am the abode of Brahman, the immortal and imperishable, of eternal dharma, and of absolute bliss.

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1Arjuna Vishada YogaThe Yoga of Arjuna's Despair 2Sankhya YogaThe Yoga of Knowledge 3Karma YogaThe Yoga of Action 4Jnana Karma Sanyasa YogaKnowledge & Renunciation of Action 5Karma Sanyasa YogaThe Yoga of Renunciation 6Dhyana YogaThe Yoga of Meditation 7Jnana Vijnana YogaKnowledge of the Absolute 8Akshara Brahma YogaThe Imperishable Absolute 9Raja Vidya Raja Guhya YogaThe Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret 10Vibhuti YogaThe Yoga of Divine Glories 11Vishvarupa Darshana YogaThe Vision of the Universal Form 12Bhakti YogaThe Yoga of Devotion 13Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga YogaThe Field & the Knower of the Field 14Gunatraya Vibhaga YogaThe Three Gunas 15Purushottama YogaThe Supreme Person 16Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga YogaThe Divine & Demonic Natures 17Shraddhatraya Vibhaga YogaThe Three Kinds of Faith 18Moksha Sanyasa YogaLiberation through Renunciation