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Chapter 14
Gunatrayavibhaga Yoga
7. Know raja to be of the nature of attraction, arises from to craving and attachment. Therefore it binds by attachment, O Kaunteya, the embodied one to actions.
Bhashya :- Because of the influence of that (raja) attachment to craving comes to be.
8. And know tama to rise from obscurity, deluding all the embodied being binds, by negligence, indolence and sleep, O Arjuna.
Bhashya :- Obscurity is born of non-awareness having been pointed by the use of the words negligence, indolence and sleep.
9 – 18. satva initiates happiness; raja (motivates) performance or action, , tama gives rise to negligence obscuring the wisdom, O Arjuna. Overcoming raja and tama, satva prevails O Arjuna. Similarly, raja prevails over satva and tama and even tama (prevails) over satva and raja.When through all the gates of this body, Wisdom illumines through, satva should be assumed to have increased.Greed, enterprise, performance or actions, ebullition, and desire - these spring up, O Arjuna, when raja is in ascendance. Non-illumination, non-enterprise, inattention, and similarly delusion, - these spring up, O Arjuna when tama is in ascendance.When satva attains maturity at the time of dissolution, then the embodied soul attains the pure worlds of those who know the best. The one who is rajasic, reaching at the time of dissolution, he is associated with those who are performers of actions; and if it (the embodied soul) dissolves when tama prevails, then it (the embodied soul) is born in womb of the deluded.The good actions are said to be saatvic with result which is pure; while the result of the raajasic is pain and that of the taamasic is non-awareness. From satva, wisdom is born; from raja greed and from tama inattention, delusion and non-awareness. To the higher stage goes the one who is saatvic, in the middle, stays the raajasic and the taamasic, being established in lower attributes sinks downwards.
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