Bhagavad Gita -Sivananda 403

Bhagavad Gita -Swami Sivananda

Chapter-18 : THE YOGA OF LIBERATION BY RENUNCIATION

Summary of Eighteenth Discourse

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Yadagre chaanubandhe cha sukham mohanamaatmanah;
Nidraalasyapramaadottham tattaamasamudaahritam.

39. That pleasure which at first and in the sequel is delusive of the self, arising from sleep,
indolence and heedlessness—such a pleasure is declared to be Tamasic.

Na tadasti prithivyaam vaa divi deveshu vaa punah;
Sattwam prakritijairmuktam yadebhih syaat tribhirgunaih.

40. There is no being on earth or again in heaven among the gods that is liberated from the
three qualities born of Nature.

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