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Chapter 18
Yathavat:- As it has been described in the branch of knowledge, dealing with Gunas, He is telling him the same, without any addition or substraction.
Srnu:- Lord Krsna asks Arjuna, to hear the topic attentively, because out of the three the sattvika one, enables a man to realize God, by breaking up his affinity with actions, while the rajasika leads to the bondage of birth and death, and the tamasika is conducive to degradation, viz., hell and eighty-four lac forms, of lives. So he should adopt the sattvika mode and abandon the Rajasika and Tamasika.
Tani:- The agent, action and knowledge, have no connection with the self. The self is ever-pure and detached.
Api:- It is indispensable to know, these three kinds, because by knowing these in the right perspective, a man can realize the fact enumerated in [1]. 'He who is free from egoistic notions, whose intellect is not tainted, though he slays the people, he really slays not, nor is he bound (by actions)' i.e., he realizes, the self.
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