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Shloka 14.6 “Of these, sattva, being pure, is illuminating and healthy; it binds by attachment to happiness and knowledge, O sinless one.” Key Teaching: Sattva binds through attachment to happiness and knowledge. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna describes sattva as pure, illuminating, and healthy, but binding the soul through attachment to […]

Shloka 14.5 “Sattva, rajas, and tamas, these gunas born of nature, bind the imperishable soul to the body, O mightyarmed.” Key Teaching: The three gunas bind the soul to the body. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna explains that sattva, rajas, and tamas, born of prakriti, bind the imperishable soul to the

Shloka 14.4 “Whatever forms are produced in any womb, O Kaunteya, the great Brahma is their womb, and I am the seedgiving father.” Key Teaching: Krishna is the seedgiving father of all forms, with Brahma as the womb. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna states that all forms in any womb arise

Shloka 14.3 “My womb is the great Brahma; in it, I place the seed; thence arises all beings, O Bharata.” Key Teaching: Krishna’s primal nature and seed create all beings. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna describes His primal nature (great Brahma) as the womb, where He places the seed, giving rise

Shloka 14.2 “By resorting to this knowledge, and attaining My nature, they are not reborn in creation nor disturbed at dissolution.” Key Teaching: Knowledge of gunas aligns with Krishna, preventing rebirth. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga, Bhakti Yoga. Description: Krishna explains that those who resort to this supreme knowledge, attaining His nature, are

Shloka 14.1 “The Blessed Lord said: I will again declare the supreme knowledge, the best of all knowledge, knowing which sages attain perfection.” Key Teaching: Supreme knowledge of gunas leads to perfection. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna introduces Chapter 14 by promising to declare the supreme knowledge, superior to all, through

Shloka 13.35 “Thus, I have explained the knowledge of the field and the knower of the field, which leads to the highest goal, O Arjuna.” Key Teaching: Krishna concludes that knowledge of the field and knower leads to the highest goal. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga Yoga, Jnana Yoga. Description: Krishna concludes that he

Shloka 13.34 “As the sun illuminates the whole world, so the self illuminates the whole field, O Bharata.” Key Teaching: The self illuminates the field like the sun illuminates the world. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna compares the self to the sun, which illuminates the world, stating that the self illuminates

Shloka 13.33 “As the allpervading ether is not tainted due to its subtlety, so the self in the body is not tainted.” Key Teaching: The self, like ether, remains untainted. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna compares the self to the allpervading ether, which remains untainted due to its subtlety, stating the

Shloka 13.32 “Being beginningless and without gunas, the imperishable supreme self, though dwelling in the body, neither acts nor is tainted, O Bharata.” Key Teaching: The supreme self is actionless and untainted despite dwelling in the body. Theme: Guidance, Jnana Yoga, Moksha Sannyasa Yoga. Description: Krishna describes the supreme self as beginningless, without gunas, imperishable,