- Three Gunas of Nature
- Division according to Gunas
- The Three Modes of Material Nature
- Universal womb / father
- Awareness on Gunas and their impact
- At one point one Guna in dominance
- When Sat dominates then Knowldege, friendliness, helpfulness increase
- When Rajo in dominance then action oriented and desire for fruit
- And when Tamo dominating , ignorance covers knowledge & ruins intellect. Dullness & delusion
- Rising above Gunas and away from their influence as we have the intellect to choose what is right and devotion to lord.
- 27 shlokas
- 14.1-14.5 : All beings have same origin. Come from same womb/father.
- 14.6 -14.20 : Nature has 3 aspects/gunas/dispositions.
- Actions / reactions / feelings are based on ones guna combination
- An aware person has the ability to change the combination of SRT and hence the course of life
- We have to rise above the gunas to attain liberation
- Stop laziness & procastination. Do what is right & needs to be done. Selflessness. And then devotion to take us forward.
- 14.21 -14.27 : Who is trigunatit? beyond the gunas.
- Attributes described (combination of Stithpragya 2.55-2.72 and Bhakta 12.13-12.20)
- Same to friend & foe, equipoised, no attachments, no doership, depend only on God.....
- Gunas form the nature and have an impact on every aspect of prakriti.
Summary in poetry
A story related to the message
Three Robbers on the Path
Purity, Passion and Inertia, constituents are three
Of the Nature, that is born from ME
Purity binds to knowledge and divineness
At all times leads to happiness
Elements of Passion are restlessness and constant action
It can only lead to pain and dejection
Inertia binds to useless activity, sleep and indolence
Result of which is ignorance
Everyone is so bound by these modes of three
One who transcends them becomes free
A story related to the message
Three Robbers on the Path
Once a man was going through a forest when three robbers jumped on him and robbed him.
One of the robbers then said, “What is the use of keeping this man alive?”
He was about to kill him with his sword when the second robber stopped him, saying“What is the use of killing him? Tie him to a tree and leave him here.”
The robbers tied him to a tree and went
away.
After a while, the third robber returned and said to the man: “I am sorry; are you hurt? I will untie you.”
After setting the man free, the thief said: “Come with me. I will take you to the public highway.”
After a long time, they reached the
road.
Then the man said: “Sir, you have been very good to me. Come with me to my house.” “Oh no!” replied the robber, “I can’t go
there. The police will know it.” The forest is this world. The three
robbers are the three Gunas: goodness, passion and laziness. It is they who rob us of Self- knowledge. Laziness wants to destroy us. Passion ties us to the world. Goodness frees us from the grasp of passion and laziness. Under the protection of goodness, we are rescued from anger, passion, greed, and laziness. Goodness also loosens the bonds of the world. But goodness is also a robber. It cannot give us the pure knowledge of God. It can only show us the path leading to the house of God. We have to rise above the three Gunas and develop love of God.
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