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Chapter 14
gunenetanatitya trindehi dehasamudbhaviin
janmamrtyu jaraduhkhairvimukto'mrtamainute
When the embodied soul (wise) rises above these three guns (modes) out of which the body is evolved, he is freed from birth, death, old age and pain and he achieves immortality. 20
Comment:-
Gunanetanatitya trindehi dehasamudbhavan:- Though a thoughtful person (soul), has no connection with the body, yet people think him dwelling in the body. So he has been termed as Debi' (Embodied Soul).
A body is evolved out of these modes. A man (soul), assumes his affinity with these modes. Attachment to these modes, is the cause of his birth, in good and evil wombs (Gita 13/21). A thoughtful person rises above the three modes, which have been discussed, from the fifth to the eighteenth verses of this chapter i.e., he renounces his assumed affinity with them, because he clearly perceives that he (self), is distinct from the guns, having no connection at all, because the self undergoes no change while, the guns always undergo modifications. The self, has no connection even with, prakrti (matter), from which these modes evolve. Then how could he (self), have any affinity with gums?
Janmamrtyujaraduhkhairvimukto'mptamainute:- When a striver, rises above these three modes, he becomes free, from the sufferings of birth, death and old age, because attachment to these modes, is the cause of his birth etc. These modes, appear and disappear, and they also undergo modifications, in their forms - Sattvika, Rajasa and Tamasa, while he (the self), ever remains detached and so undergoes no modifications in the form of birth, death and old age. It is because of his attachment, to the gunas, that he suffers the pangs of birth, death and old age. One, who realizes the self, totally detached from these modes, attains immortality, which is natural.
A man (soul), by his identification with a body, regards its death as his death. He being a portion of the Lord, is immortal but, being attached to pleasure and prosperity, and having a desire to maintain the decaying and dying body, he does not realize his immortality. A thoughtful person, applying his discrimination, comes to know that he is different from the body, and thus realizes, his immortality.
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