Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 14
While after death, they cause his birth in good and evil wombs. But in fact it is the propensities of modes, at the root of actions, which conduce him to have his birth in good and evil bodies (Gita 13/21). It means, that attachment to modes of nature is not weaker than actions. As actions bear good and bad fruit, attachment to modes of nature also bears good, and bad fruit (Gita 8/6). So in the context of fourteen verses from the fifth to . the eighteenth, the Lord, first in the fourteenth and the fifteenth verses, explained the destiny which awaits a man who dies during the predominance of one of the modes of nature; then in the sixteenth verse He explained the fruit of the actions in the form of favourable and unfavourable circumstances and finally in the eighteenth verse He explains the different destinies, awaiting those who are established in the three guns. Thus, different propensities arise, from these gums (modes) and these force a person, to perform the same sort of actions, as has been described in this verse. In this topic, the chief characteristic of the modes, has been mentioned. |
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