Shloka 14.17“From sattva arises knowledge; from rajas, greed; from tamas, negligence and delusion.” Key Teaching: Sattva yields knowledge, rajas greed,…
Shloka 14.16“The fruit of sattvic action is purity; of rajasic, pain; of tamasic, ignorance.” Key Teaching: Actions yield purity (sattva),…
Shloka 14.15“Dying in rajas, one is born among those attached to action; dying in tamas, one is born in wombs…
Shloka 14.14“If one dies when sattva prevails, he attains the pure worlds of the wise.” Key Teaching: Death in sattva…
Shloka 14.13“Darkness, inertia, negligence, and delusion—these arise when tamas prevails, O Kurunandana.” Key Teaching: Tamas manifests as darkness, inertia, and…
Shloka 14.12“Greed, activity, restlessness, undertaking of actions, and longing—these arise when rajas prevails.” Key Teaching: Rajas manifests as greed, restlessness,…
Shloka 14.11“When the light of knowledge shines through all gates of the body, then sattva is said to prevail.” Key…
Shloka 14.10“Sattva rises by suppressing rajas and tamas; rajas by suppressing sattva and tamas; tamas by suppressing sattva and rajas.”…
Shloka 14.9“Sattva attaches to happiness, rajas to action, O Bharata; tamas, veiling wisdom, attaches to negligence.” Key Teaching: Each guna…
Shloka 14.8“Tamas, born of ignorance, deludes all beings; it binds by negligence, indolence, and sleep, O Bharata.” Key Teaching: Tamas…