165. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14, Verses 6 - 10 I Swami Sarvapriyananda
1/12/20261 hr 11 min
Taught by Swami Sarvapriyananda, this episode is part of a series of talks that unfold the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of the Bhagavad Gita, "The Song of God".
In this episode, Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches chapter 14, verses 6 -10 of the Bhagavad Gita.
Chapter 14 is devoted to an understanding of the Gunatreya Vibhaga Yoga, or the three qualities/components of Maya. The entire universe is created by a projection of the three gunas - satva, rajas, and tamas. Understanding the science of the three gunas and how we...
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Om Vasudeva Sutam Devam Kamasa Chanura Mardanam Devaki Paramanandam Krishnam Vande Jagad Guru. We are studying the 14th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, and it's all about the three gunas. If you remember, the, the Vedantic cosmology, everything is made of maya. And what is maya made of? The three constituents of maya are the three gunas, sattva, rajas, and tamas. Psychologically, they manifest, these three gunas manifest as, um, um, light and knowledge and, uh, alertness and brightness as sattva, the, the quality of light. As dynamism, as energy, as, um, desire and passion in the quality of rajas. As inertia, as slowness, sloth in the quality of, uh, tamas. That's in the mind. But according to the Vedantic cosmology, it's everywhere, even in material nature. All of it is sattva, rajas, and tamas. We'll start with verse number six, which we did last time,