Episode 522: Chapter 14, verses 10, 11 and 12
2/15/202623 min
Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14 "Yoga of the Three Modes of Material Nature" Verses 10, 11 & 12
The lecture discusses how the three aspects of Maya, Satva, Rajas, and Tamas bind pure consciousness to Prakriti, thereby creating identification with the limited self. How do I know which Guna is dominating my mind, and what are the symptoms of recognizing it?
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[singing] The Bhagavad Gita is a book of mankind's collected experience of and answers to life's most basic questions: Who I am, from where do I come, what is my purpose and destiny, and most practically, how do I find happiness? These podcasts originate in the lectures of Neil Bhatt, a disciple of Swami Chinmayananda. They are presented here in 20 to 30-minute segments, each covering three of the Gita's 701 verses. Welcome to Gita Wisdom for Daily Living.
Neil Bhatt· Host0:57
We have been discussing chapter 14, Guṇatraya Vibhāg Yog, Yoga of Three Gunas. We discussed many times before, and most of you heard from osmosis in India that there are three gunas of Prakriti, sattva, rajas, and tamas. These gunas derive from Maya. So the gunas are not really the qualities of Maya. It's not like the red color of a flower, which is a quality of flower. Gunas are the aspects of