Gita Bhashya -Sankara 589

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -14

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Guna-Traya-Vibhaga Yogah

(THE WAY OF DISCRIMINATING THE THREE GUNAS)[1]


It has been stated that all that has birth is produced by the union of the ksetra and the Ksetrajña[2]. How does it happen? To explain this, the (present) chapter is begun.

Or, (the chapter is begun) for showing that the ksetra and the Ksetrajña, both dependent on īśvara-not independent in them­ selves as held by the Sāmkhyas-, -form the cause of the universe. It has (also) been stated that the dwelling (of the Purusa) in Prakrti and (his) attachment to the Gunas is the cause of (his) samsāra (XIII.21). In what Gunas and in what manner is that attachment? And what are the Gunas? And how do they bind (him)? In what manner is release from the Gunas to be secured? What are the characteristics of the liberated person?-With a view to answering these questions also (the chapter is begun by the Lord).

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References and Context

  1. ↑ (THE WAY OF DISCRIMINATING THE THREE GUNAS1) It has been stated that all that has birth is produced by the union of the ksetra and the Ksetrajña (XIII.26). How does it happen? To explain this, the (present) chapter is begun. Or, (the chapter is begun) for showing that the ksetra and the Ksetrajña, both dependent on īśvara-not independent in them­ selves as held by the Sāmkhyas-, -form the cause of the universe. It has (also) been stated that the dwelling (of the Purusa) in Prakrti and (his) attachment to the Gunas is the cause of (his) samsāra (XIII.21). In what Gunas and in what manner is that attachment? And what are the Gunas? And how do they bind (him)? In what manner is release from the Gunas to be secured? What are the characteristics of the liberated person?-With a view to answering these questions also (the chapter is begun by the Lord).
  2. ↑ XIII.26

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Chapter No Chapter Name Page No
Introduction 2
1. Arjuna visada yogah (Yoga of the Dejection of Arjuna) 6
2. Saiukhya Yogah (Way of knowledge) 22
3. Karma Yogah (Way of action) 96
4. Jnana Karma Saninyasa Yogah (Way of renunciation of action in knowledge) 143
5. Karmasaninyasa Yogah (Way of renunciation of action) 195
6. Divyana Yogah (Way of meditation) 233
7. Saptamo (A) Dhyayah Jnana-Vijnana-yogah (Way of knowledge with realisation) 288
8. Taraka Brahma Yogah (Saving knowledge of Brahman) 319
9. Raja-Vidya Raja-Guhya Yogah (Yoga of kingly knowledge and kingly secret) 348
10. Vibhuti Yogah (Mode of Divine Glory) 385
11. Visvarapa Darsanam (Vision of the Universal Form) 428
12. Bhakti Yogah (Way of Devotion) 484
13. Prakrti-Purusa-Viveka-Yogah (Way of Discrimi­nating Matter and Spirit) 509
14. Guna-Traya-Vibhaga Yogah (The Way of Discriminating the Three Gunas) 589
15. Purusottama Yogah (Way to the Supreme Spirit) 621
16. Daivasura-Sampat-Vibhaga-Yogah (The mode of Dividing Divine and Demminiac Properties) 649
17. Sraddhaa-Traya-Vibhaga Yogah (The Mode of Division of the Three Kinds of Faith) 676
18. Moksa-Samnyasa Yogah (The Yoga of Libera­ tion in Renunciation) 707
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