अनादित्वान्निर्गुणत्वात्परमात्मायमव्ययः।शरीरस्थोऽपि कौन्तेय न करोति न लिप्यते।।13.32।।
Because it is beginningless and without qualities, this supreme self is imperishable; though dwelling in the body, O Kaunteya, it neither acts nor is tainted.
यथा सर्वगतं सौक्ष्म्यादाकाशं नोपलिप्यते।सर्वत्रावस्थितो देहे तथाऽऽत्मा नोपलिप्यते।।13.33।।
Just as the all-pervading space, because of its subtlety, is not tainted, so the self, though present everywhere in the body, is not tainted.
यथा प्रकाशयत्येकः कृत्स्नं लोकमिमं रविः।क्षेत्रं क्षेत्री तथा कृत्स्नं प्रकाशयति भारत।।13.34।।
As the one sun illumines this entire world, so does the knower of the field illumine the whole field, O Bharata.
क्षेत्रक्षेत्रज्ञयोरेवमन्तरं ज्ञानचक्षुषा।भूतप्रकृतिमोक्षं च ये विदुर्यान्ति ते परम्।।13.35।।
Those who, with the eye of knowledge, perceive the distinction between the field and the knower of the field, and the liberation from the nature of beings, they attain the supreme.
श्री भगवानुवाचपरं भूयः प्रवक्ष्यामि ज्ञानानां ज्ञानमुत्तमम्।यज्ज्ञात्वा मुनयः सर्वे परां सिद्धिमितो गताः।।14.1।।
The Blessed Lord said: Again I shall declare the highest knowledge among all knowledges, knowing which all the sages have attained supreme perfection from here.
इदं ज्ञानमुपाश्रित्य मम साधर्म्यमागताः।सर्गेऽपि नोपजायन्ते प्रलये न व्यथन्ति च।।14.2।।
Resorting to this knowledge, they have come to a likeness with Me; at creation they are not born, and at dissolution they do not suffer.
मम योनिर्महद्ब्रह्म तस्मिन् गर्भं दधाम्यहम्।संभवः सर्वभूतानां ततो भवति भारत।।14.3।।
My womb is the great Brahman; in that I place the seed. From that, O Bharata, arises the birth of all beings.
सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः सम्भवन्ति याः।तासां ब्रह्म महद्योनिरहं बीजप्रदः पिता।।14.4।।
Whatever forms are produced in all wombs, O son of Kunti, the great Brahman is their womb, and I am the seed-giving father.
सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः।निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्।।14.5।।
Sattva, rajas, and tamas—these qualities arise from nature; they bind the imperishable embodied one to the body, O mighty-armed.
तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम्।सुखसङ्गेन बध्नाति ज्ञानसङ्गेन चानघ।।14.6।।
Of these, sattva, being pure, is illuminating and free from sickness; yet it binds, O sinless one, by attachment to happiness and attachment to knowledge.
रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम्।तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसङ्गेन देहिनम्।।14.7।।
Know rajas to be of the nature of passion, arising from craving and attachment; it binds the embodied one, O son of Kunti, by attachment to action.
तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम्।प्रमादालस्यनिद्राभिस्तन्निबध्नाति भारत।।14.8।।
But know tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds, O Bharata, by heedlessness, indolence, and sleep.
सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः कर्मणि भारत।ज्ञानमावृत्य तु तमः प्रमादे सञ्जयत्युत।।14.9।।
Sattva attaches to happiness, rajas to action, O Bharata; but tamas, covering knowledge, attaches to heedlessness.
रजस्तमश्चाभिभूय सत्त्वं भवति भारत।रजः सत्त्वं तमश्चैव तमः सत्त्वं रजस्तथा।।14.10।।
When rajas and tamas are overcome, sattva prevails, O Bharata; when sattva and tamas are subdued, rajas arises; likewise, when sattva and rajas are subdued, tamas prevails.
सर्वद्वारेषु देहेऽस्मिन्प्रकाश उपजायते।ज्ञानं यदा तदा विद्याद्विवृद्धं सत्त्वमित्युत।।14.11।।
When, in this body, light arises in all the gates, then one should know that sattva has increased.
लोभः प्रवृत्तिरारम्भः कर्मणामशमः स्पृहा।रजस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे भरतर्षभ।।14.12।।
Greed, activity, undertaking of actions, restlessness, and craving—these arise when rajas increases, O best of the Bharatas.
अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च।तमस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरुनन्दन।।14.13।।
Darkness, inactivity, heedlessness, and delusion—these arise when tamas increases, O joy of the Kurus.
यदा सत्त्वे प्रवृद्धे तु प्रलयं याति देहभृत्।तदोत्तमविदां लोकानमलान्प्रतिपद्यते।।14.14।।
When the embodied one meets death while sattva is predominant, he attains the pure worlds of those who know the highest.
रजसि प्रलयं गत्वा कर्मसङ्गिषु जायते।तथा प्रलीनस्तमसि मूढयोनिषु जायते।।14.15।।
Having died in rajas, one is born among those attached to action; likewise, dying in tamas, one is born among the deluded.
कर्मणः सुकृतस्याहुः सात्त्विकं निर्मलं फलम्।रजसस्तु फलं दुःखमज्ञानं तमसः फलम्।।14.16।।
It is said that the fruit of good action is pure and sattvic; the fruit of rajas is suffering, and ignorance is the fruit of tamas.
सत्त्वात्सञ्जायते ज्ञानं रजसो लोभ एव च।प्रमादमोहौ तमसो भवतोऽज्ञानमेव च।।14.17।।
From sattva arises knowledge; from rajas, only greed; from tamas are born negligence and delusion, and indeed ignorance as well.
ऊर्ध्वं गच्छन्ति सत्त्वस्था मध्ये तिष्ठन्ति राजसाः।जघन्यगुणवृत्तिस्था अधो गच्छन्ति तामसाः।।14.18।।
Those established in sattva rise upward; those in rajas remain in the middle; those abiding in the lowest quality, tamas, go downward.
नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति।गुणेभ्यश्च परं वेत्ति मद्भावं सोऽधिगच्छति।।14.19।।
When the seer perceives no agent apart from the gunas, and knows what is beyond the gunas, he attains my state.
गुणानेतानतीत्य त्रीन्देही देहसमुद्भवान्।जन्ममृत्युजरादुःखैर्विमुक्तोऽमृतमश्नुते।।14.20।।
Transcending these three gunas, which arise from the body, the embodied one is freed from birth, death, old age, and suffering, and attains immortality.
अर्जुन उवाचकैर्लिंगैस्त्रीन्गुणानेतानतीतो भवति प्रभो।किमाचारः कथं चैतांस्त्रीन्गुणानतिवर्तते।।14.21।।
Arjuna said: By what marks is one known who has transcended these three gunas, Lord? What is his conduct, and how does he go beyond these three gunas?
श्री भगवानुवाचप्रकाशं च प्रवृत्तिं च मोहमेव च पाण्डव।न द्वेष्टि सम्प्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि काङ्क्षति।।14.22।।
The Blessed Lord said: Light, activity, and delusion, O Pandava—he neither hates when they arise, nor longs for them when they cease.
उदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते।गुणा वर्तन्त इत्येव योऽवतिष्ठति नेङ्गते।।14.23।।
Seated as if indifferent, he is not disturbed by the gunas; knowing, 'The gunas act,' he remains unmoved.
समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः।तुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः।।14.24।।
He is equal in pleasure and pain, established in himself, the same toward clod, stone, and gold; equal toward the pleasant and the unpleasant, steady, and equal in praise and blame of himself.
मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः।सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी गुणातीतः स उच्यते।।14.25।।
He is the same in honor and dishonor, the same toward friend and foe; abandoning all undertakings, he is said to have transcended the gunas.
मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्ितयोगेन सेवते।स गुणान्समतीत्यैतान् ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते।।14.26।।
And he who serves me with unwavering devotion through the yoga of devotion, he, transcending these gunas, is fit to become Brahman.