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Chapter 14
Link:- In the preceding verse, the Lord explained the fruits of predominance of the three gunas (modes) of a person while dying. Now, in the next verse, He explains how the gunas, activate their respective actions.
sattvatsanjayate jnanam rajaso lobha eva ca
pramadamohau tamaso bhavato'jnanameva ca
From Sattva (the mode of goodness) arises knowledge, from Rajasa (the mode of passion) arises greed and from Tamasa (the mode of ignorance), arise heedlessness, delusion and ignorance. 17
Comment:-
Sattvatsaiijayate jnanam:- Sattva, awakens knowledge or discrimination. That discrimination, enables a man to perform only good actions, which bear Sattvika and pure fruit.
Rajaso lobha eva ca:- Rajoguna gives birth to greed etc. Actions of a greedy person, bear painful fruit. Greed, is the lust for multiplying possessions. Greed can manifest itself, in two forms - not to incur proper expenditure and to accumulate wealth etc., by foul means. If a person, does not spend money according to the need of the moment, because of greed, he loses his peace of mind. If he accumulates and hoards money, by foul means, he incurs sins, which lead him to hell and eighty-four lac forms of lives, which are full of suffering.
Pramadamohau tamaso bhavato'jfianameva ca:- Heedlessness, delusion and ignorance arise, from Tamasa. A Tamasika man, thinks of wrong as right, and regards, all things contrary (GIta 18/32).
In this verse, it is mentioned that ignorance arises from Tamasa, while in the eighth verse of the chapter Tamasa, has been said to be born of ignorance. It means, that as a seed is born of a tree and a tree is born of the seed, ignorance, is born of Tamasa and Tamasa is born of ignorance.
In the eighth verse, the Lord explained heedlessness, indolence and sleep, as the three propensities of Tamasa, while in the thirteenth verse as well as in this verse, there is mention of heedlessness, and there is no mention of sleep. It indicates, that necessary sleep is neither Tamasa nor forbidden, nor leads to bondage, but is a necessity for a Sattvika person, as well as a transcendental person (who has transcended the three modes of nature). It is only excessive sleep, which is Tamasa and which binds a person, because it makes him lazy, idle and a lot of his time, is wasted.
An Important Fact
The soul (spirit), in spite of being a fragment of the Lord, assumes its affinity, with matter (nature) and its modes. Those modes, give birth, to the propensities in the mind. Those propensities, force a person to perform the same sort of actions. The fruit of those actions, causes a person to be born in good and evil bodies. It means, that during life, those actions bear fruit, in the form of favourable and unfavourable circumstances.
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