168. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 14 Verse 21-22 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
1/26/20261 hr 10 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".
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 can apply it to our lives is the focus of Chapter 14. However, Sri Krishna explains that while the...
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[chanting] Vasudeva sutam devam kamsa-cāṇūra-mardanam devakī-paramānandaḿ kṛṣṇaḿ vande jagadgurum. So the Bhagavad Gita, fourteenth chapter, guṇa-trayavibhāga yoga, the yoga of the, the discernment of the three gunas. And we have seen, um, how this analysis of the three gunas wonderfully describes human nature. What we are, how we think, how we feel, how we behave. These three gunas, sattva, rajas, and tamas, they sort of comprehensively describe our nature. And then Krishna says, the central teaching, the point of talking about all of this... Of course, this, um, knowledge about the three gunas is a great thing to know. Uh, if we can understand why we feel the way we do, why we think and behave in the way we do, how we keep changing. It's all gunas. But that was not the central message. The central message is that's not who or what we really are. The spirit, the atman, consciousness, our real nature, who we are, is different from the gunas, gunas. Is distinct from the gunas. And that's what he says in this