Shloka: BG 14.1
The Blessed Lord said, "I will again declare to thee that supreme knowledge, the best of all knowledge, having known whi...
Shloka: BG 14.2
Those who, having taken refuge in this knowledge, have attained unity with Me, are neither born at the time of creation ...
Shloka: BG 14.3
My womb is the great Brahma; in it I place the germ; thence, O Arjuna, is the birth of all beings.
Shloka: BG 14.4
Whatever forms are produced, O Arjuna, in any womb whatsoever, the great Brahma is their womb, and I am the seed-giving ...
Shloka: BG 14.5
These qualities, O Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the body of the embodied, the indestructible: purity, passion, a...
Shloka: BG 14.6
Of these, sattva, which is luminous and healthy due to its stainlessness, binds one by attachment to happiness and knowl...
Shloka: BG 14.7
Know, O Arjuna, that Rajas is of the nature of passion, the source of thirst and attachment; it binds fast the embodied ...
Shloka: BG 14.8
But know thou Tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds fast, O Arjuna, through heedlessness...
Shloka: BG 14.9
Sattva attaches to happiness, Rajas to action, O Arjuna, while Tamas, verily shrouding knowledge, attaches to heedlessne...
Shloka: BG 14.10
Now, O Arjuna, Sattva prevails, having overpowered Rajas and Tamas; then Rajas, having overpowered Sattva and Tamas; and...
Shloka: BG 14.11
When the wisdom-light shines through every gate of this body, then it may be known that Sattva is predominant.
Shloka: BG 14.12
Greed, activity, the undertaking of actions, restlessness, and longing—these arise when Rajas is predominant, O Arjuna.
Shloka: BG 14.13
Darkness, inertia, carelessness, and delusion—these arise when Tamas is predominant, O Arjuna.
Shloka: BG 14.14
If the embodied one meets death when Sattva is predominant, then they attain the spotless worlds of the knowers of the H...
Shloka: BG 14.15
Meeting death in Rajas, he is born among those who are attached to action; and dying in Tamas, he is born in the womb of...
Shloka: BG 14.16
They say that the fruit of good action is Sattvic and pure; indeed, the fruit of Rajas is pain, and the fruit of Tamas i...
Shloka: BG 14.17
From Sattva arises knowledge, and greed from Rajas; heedlessness and delusion arise from Tamas, and also ignorance.
Shloka: BG 14.18
Those seated in Sattva ascend; those of Rajasic nature dwell in the middle; and those of Tamasic nature, abiding in the ...
Shloka: BG 14.19
When the seer beholds no agent other than the Gunas and knows that which is higher than them, he attains to My Being.
Shloka: BG 14.20
The embodied one, having crossed beyond these three Gunas from which the body is evolved, is freed from birth, death, de...
Shloka: BG 14.21
Arjuna said, "What are the marks of one who has transcended the three qualities, O Lord? What is their conduct, and how ...
Shloka: BG 14.22
The Blessed Lord said, "When light, activity, and delusion are present, he does not hate them, nor does he long for them...
Shloka: BG 14.23
He who, seated like one unconcerned, is not moved by the dualities, and who, knowing that the dualities are active, is s...
Shloka: BG 14.24
Who is the same in pleasure and pain, who dwells in the Self, to whom a clod of earth, a stone, and gold are all alike, ...
Shloka: BG 14.25
Who is the same in honor and dishonor, the same to friend and foe, abandoning all undertakings, he is said to have trans...
Shloka: BG 14.26
And he who serves Me with unwavering devotion, he, crossing beyond the dualities, is fit for becoming Brahman.
Shloka: BG 14.27