Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 14
They develop Sattvika, Rajasika and Tamasika gunas, according to their own nature. A person, having predominance of the mode of passion (Rajoguna), at the time of death, is reborn in the mortal world, as a human being (14/15) and a person established in the mode of passion, is also reborn as a human being (14/18). It means, that all human beings have only the mode of passion, they have neither the mode of goodness (Sattvaguna) nor the mode of ignorance (Tamoguna). But actually it is not so, because the Lord Himself declares, that when a man dies, during the predominance of Sattva- (goodness), he attains to the pure worlds (14/14) and when he dies, being established in the mode of goodness, he goes to higher regions (14/18). Similarly, He declares that if a person dies, during the predominance of Tamas (ignorance), he is born in the womb of the deluded (14/15) and if he dies when he is established in the mode of ignorance, he sinks downwards (14/18). The three modes (gunas) of goodness (Sattva), passion (Rajas) and ignorance (Tomas) bind, the imperishable spirit to the body (14/5). The whole world, is deluded by the threefold modes, of nature (7/13). The doers are said to be, of three types—Sattvika, Rajasika and Tamasika (18/26-28). There is _ no being, in the entire universe, which is free, from the three modes born of nature (18/40).
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