169. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 14 Verses 23-25 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
1/31/20261 hr 13 min
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches verses 23-25 from the fourteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks by Swami Sarvapriyananda on the Bhagavad Gita, 'the Song of God,' unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta.
Chapter 14 is devoted to understanding the Gunatreya Vibhaga Yoga, or the three qualities/components (gunas) of Maya.
Swami Sarvapriyananda explains that other than the Atma, everything in nature is the play of the three gunas. This insight and transcending the play of the three gunas is the doorway to infinity.
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[chanting] Vasudeva sutam devam kamsa-canoora-mardanam devaki-paramanandam krishnam vande jagad-gurum. So we are studying the Bhagavad Gita, the fourteenth chapter. This chapter is about the three gunas, sattva, rajas, and tamas. And it's a wonderful way of understanding human nature, understanding the world, but understanding our own nature. Um, and the teaching was our bodies, minds, all of these are constituted by these three gunas, and their effects are what we see in the way we think, feel, and behave, speak, all of that. But the crucial teaching is our real nature is not the three gunas. We are consciousness, the witness of the three gunas. That's what the whole point is, to realize that. And this whole science of the three gunas helps us in doing that. We remember Sri Ramakrishna's very telling parable about the, uh, three robbers. Uh, and then the man attains, goes to freedom. But all three are ro- robbers.