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Chapter-14
Gun-tray
Vibhag Yog
1: The Supreme Personality of
Godhead said: Again I shall declare to you this supreme
wisdom, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the
sages have attained the supreme perfection.
2: By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can
attain to the transcendental nature like My own. Thus
established, one is not born at the time of creation or
disturbed at the time of dissolution.
3: The total material substance, called Brahman, is
the source of birth, and it is that Brahman that I
impregnate, making possible the births of all living
beings, O son of Bharata.
4: It should be understood that all species of
life, O son of Kunti, are made possible by birth in this
material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.
5: Material nature consists of three
modes-goodness, passion and ignorance. When the eternal
living entity comes in contact with nature, O
mighty-armed Arjuna, he becomes conditioned by these
modes.
6: O sinless one, the mode of goodness, being purer
than the others, is illuminating, and it frees one from
all sinful reactions. Those situated in that mode become
conditioned by a sense of happiness and knowledge.
7: The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires
and longings, O son of Kunti, and because of this the
embodied living entity is bound to material fruitive
actions.
8: O son of Bharata, know that the mode of
darkness, born of ignorance, is the delusion of all
embodied living entities. The results of this mode are
madness, indolence and sleep, which bind the conditioned
soul.
9: O son of Bharata, the mode of goodness
conditions one to happiness; passion conditions one to
fruitive action; and ignorance, covering one’s
knowledge, binds one to madness.
10: Sometimes the mode of goodness becomes
prominent, defeating the modes of passion and ignorance,
O son of Bharata. Sometimes the modes of passion defeats
goodness and ignorance, and at other times ignorance
defeats goodness and passion. In this way there is
always competition for supremacy.
11: The manifestation of the mode of goodness can
be experienced when all the gates of the body are
illuminated by knowledge.
12: O chief of the Bharatas, when there is an
increase in the mode of passion the symptoms of great
attachment, fruitive activity, intense endeavor, and
uncontrollable desire and hankering develop.
13: When there is an increase in the mode of
ignorance, O son of Kuru, darkness, interia, madness and
illusion are manifested.
14: When one dies in the mode of goodness, he
attains to the pure higher planets of the great sages.
15: When one dies in the mode of passion, he takes
birth among those engaged in fruitive activities; and
when one dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth
in the animal kingdom.
16: The result of pious action is pure and is said
to be in the mode of goodness. But action done in the
mode of passion results in misery, and action performed
in the mode of ignorance results in foolishness.
17: From the mode of goodness, real knowledge
develops; from the mode of passion, greed develops; and
from the mode of ignorance develops foolishness and
illusion.
18: Those situated in the mode of goodness
gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the
mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those
in the abominable mode of ignorance go down to the
hellish worlds.
19: When I properly sees that in all activities no
other performer is at work than these modes of nature
and he knows the Supreme Lord, who is transcendental to
all these modes, he attains My spiritual nature.
20: When the embodied being is able to transcend
these three modes associated with the material body, he
can become free from birth, death, old age and their
distresses and can enjoy nectar even in this life.
21: Arjuna inquired: O my dear Lord, by which
symptoms is one known who is transcendental to these
three modes? What is his behavior? And how does he
transcend the modes of nature?
22-25: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O
son of Pandu, he who does not hate illumination,
attachment and delusion when they are present or long
for them when they disappear; who is unwavering and
undisturbed through all these reactions of the material
qualities, remaining neutral and transcendental, knowing
that the modes alone are active; who is situated in the
self and regards alike happiness and distress; who looks
upon a lump of earth, a stone and a piece of gold with
an equal eye; who is equal toward the desirable and the
undesirable; who is steady, situated equally well in
praise and blame, honor and dishonor; who treats alike
both friend and enemy; and who has renounced all
material activities-such a person is said to have
transcended the modes of nature.
26: One who engages in full devotional in full
devotional service, unfailing in all circumstances, at
once transcends the modes of material nature and thus
comes to the level of Brahman.
27: And I am the basis of the impersonal Brahman,
which is immortal, imperishable and eternal and is the
constitutional position of ultimate happiness.
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