The Three Gunas (Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga)

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ARJUNA SAID:

 

21. By what marks, O Lord, is he known who has crossed beyond those three gunas

? What is his conduct and how does he pass beyond those three gunas.

 

THE BLESSED LORD SAID:

 

22. Light and activity and delusion present, O Pandava, he hates not, nor longs

for them absent.

 

23. He who, seated as a neutral, is not moved by gunas; who, thinking that gunas

act, is firm and moves not;

 

24. He to whom pain and pleasure are alike, who dwells in the Self, to whom a

clod of earth and stone and gold are alike, to whom the dear and the un-dear are

alike, who is a man of wisdom, to whom censure and praise are same;

 

25. The same in honour and disgrace, the same towards friends and enemies,

abandoning all undertakings - he is said to have crossed beyond the gunas.

 

26. And he who serves Me with unfailing Devotion of Love, he, crossing beyond

those three gunas, is fitted for becoming Brahman.

 

27. For I am the abode of Brahman, the Immortal and the Immutable, the Eternal

Dharma and the unfailing Bliss.