Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 706

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 14 Division of The Three Properties रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासग्ङसमुद्भवम्। तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसग्ङे देहिनम् ॥7॥ [ “Know, O son of Kunti, that the properly of rajas, born from desire and infatuation, binds the Self with attachment to action and its fruits. Rajas, an embodiment of passion, inclines one to action.’’ ] तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम्। प्रमादालस्यनिद्राभिस्तन्निबध्नाति भारत ॥8॥ [ “And, O Bharat, know that the property of tamas, which deludes all beings, arises from ignorance and binds the Soul with carelessness, sloth, and slumber.’’ ] Tamas binds the Self with laziness, the tendency to put off a task to the next day, and with sleep. “Sleep” here does not mean that a man possessed of tamas sleeps too much. It is not a question of the body sleeping at all. As Krishn said in the sixty-ninth verse of Chapter 2, the world itself with its ephemeral pleasures is like night in which the man endowed with the property of tamas ever toils in a state of unconsciousness of the effulgent God. This is the slumber of tamas and one who is trapped in it sleeps. Krishn now discourses on the collective form of the three properties.