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The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

B. THE GITA VIEW 2. THE GUNAS To come to more recent times, Dr. Henry Drummond when he talked of "Self-ism" and "otherism" as the two permanent tendencies of nature "not painted on the canvas but woven through it", was he not describing the rajas and sattva gunas? Lastly, is not Prof. Mackenzie describing the three gunas in man's moral character when he says: "There are, in fact, we may say, three selves in every man. There is in the self that is revealed in occasional impulses which we cannot quite subdue, the 'sin' that after all dwelleth in us. On the other hand, there is the permanent character the universe in which we habitually live. And finally there is the true or rational self in which alone we feel that we can rest with satisfaction the 'Christ' that liveth in us and in whom we hope more and more to abide." Is not this last phrase almost an echo of that memorable verse (II. 45) in which Krishna asks Arjuna to abide ever in sattva" ?