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Chapter 14
Link:- In the nest verse, the Lord describes how these galas (modes) act, one over the other.
rajastamaicabhibhuya sattvam bhavati bharata rajah
sattvath tamaicaiva tamah sattvam rajastatha
Goodness (Sattva) prevails, over passion (Rajas) and ignorance (Tames), 0 Bharata. Passion overpowers goodness and ignorance and ignorance predominates, goodness and passion. 10
Comment:-
Rajastamascabhibhaya sattvam bhavati bharata:- Goodness prevails, overpowering passion and ignorance. This mode develops illumination, purity, dispassion, generosity and detachment etc., overpowering, Rajoguna viz., greed, activity, disquietude and craving for worldly pleasure and prosperity etc., and Tamoguna viz., heedlessness, indolence, umecessary sleep and delusion etc.
Rajah sattvath tamascaiva:- Passion prevails overpowering, goodness and ignorance viz., greed, activity, disquietude and craving for worldly pleasure and prosperity prevails over the propensities of Tamoguna and the quality of Sattva, mentioned above.
Tamah sattvam rajastatha:- The mode of ignorance viz., heedlessness, indolence, excessive sleep and delusion etc., overpower, the traits of Sattvaguna and Rajoguna.
The order of describing should be that one of the modes, prevails overpowering the other two modes, and it binds a man. Here (from the sixth to the tenth verse), the Lord has reversed the order as the discussion relates as to how, it binds a man, how he is attached; and finally how, one of the modes prevails over the other two. This order is justified. The Lord, in the second verse of this chapter, explained that those who have renounced their connection with prakrti, are not born at the time of creation, nor are they tormented at the time of dissolution. But those who are linked with prakrti, get bound (14/5). Now a question arises, how they bind a man? The Lord, from the sixth to the eighth verse has explained how the three kinds of modes bind a man (spirit). Then, the question arises as to what they do before binding, the spirit. In response to this the Lord explains that they drive him to, happiness, to actions and to heedlessness (14/9). Again, the question arises how they drive him, so the Lord answers, that one of them prevails over the other two, (14/10). Thus the order kept by the God is justified.
Appendix:—The mode (guns) which increases becomes predominant while the other two guns become subdued. This is the nature of modes.
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