The Gita according to Gandhi 119

The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

The Gunas The constituents of Prakriti are, as we have already seen, exhaustively dealt with in discourse 14. We need not go over the ground already covered. One or two points not touched before may be noted here. We are bound by the gunas, but we have to get free from them through them, use a thorn to get rid of a thorn. The ultimate truth is the knowledge that all action, all the world is the result of the interplay of these gunas and that untouched and above them is He (XIV. 19). One has to transcend them to taste of immortality. The characteristics of this spiritualized yogin who has transcended the gunas are described. They are, as one can easily understand, practically the same as those of the yogin of secure understanding (II. 54-72), of the dhyanayogin (VI. 7-9; VI. 29-32), or of the bhakta (XII. 12-20), for the life of perfected vision always presents the same face. The gunatita the spiritualized man is neither worried when the three gunas are in action, nor misses them when they have ceased to act. Though in the body, he will not identify himself with any of the internal or external organs.