Episode 523: Chapter 14, verses 13, 14 and 15
3/2/202622 min
The lecture discusses how we can use the understandings of the “Three Gunas” to cleanse our Antahkarana, the internal instrument - the mind and intellect for our spiritual evolution.
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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
So we have been discussing chapter 14, Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga, yoga of three gunas of prakriti. These gunas are the three constituent parts of Maya. And because this prakriti is a product of Maya, prakriti has the three gunas. And because I'm part of the prakriti, I also have these three gunas. And when I say I have three gunas, what I really mean is I come under the influence of these three gunas