Gita 14.1
श्रीभगवानुवाच। परं भूयः प्रवक्ष्यामि ज्ञानानां ज्ञानमुत्तमम्। यज्ज्ञात्वा मुनयः सर्वे परां सिद्धिमितो गताः॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca paraṁ bhūyaḥ pravakṣyāmi jñānānāṁ jñānam uttamam yaj jñātvā munayaḥ sarve parāṁ siddhim ito gatāḥ
"The Blessed Lord said: I shall again declare the supreme knowledge, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have gone from here to the highest perfection."
All 27 verses of Chapter 14
- 14.1The Blessed Lord said: I shall again declare the supreme knowledge, the best of all knowledge, knowing...
- 14.2Having taken refuge in this knowledge, attaining similarity to My nature, they are not born at creation...
- 14.3My womb is the great Brahman (prakriti); in that I place the seed; from that arises the birth of all...
- 14.4Whatever forms are produced in all wombs, O son of Kunti, the great Brahman is their womb; I am the...
- 14.5Sattva, rajas, and tamas, these qualities born of prakriti bind the imperishable embodied one to the body...
- 14.6Of these, sattva, being pure, is illuminating and free from disease; it binds by attachment to happiness...
- 14.7Know rajas to be of the nature of passion, the source of thirst and attachment; it binds the embodied one...
- 14.8But know tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds by negligence, laziness...
- 14.9Sattva attaches to happiness, rajas to action, O Bharata; while tamas, veiling knowledge, attaches to...
- 14.10Sattva arises overpowering rajas and tamas, O Bharata; rajas overpowering sattva and tamas; and likewise...
- 14.11When the light of knowledge shines through all the gates of this body, then one should know that sattva is...
- 14.12Greed, activity, undertaking of actions, restlessness, longing, these arise when rajas is predominant, O...
- 14.13Darkness, inactivity, negligence, and delusion, these arise when tamas is predominant, O joy of the Kurus.
- 14.14When the embodied one dies with sattva predominant, then one attains the pure worlds of those who know the...
- 14.15Meeting death in rajas, one is born among those attached to action; likewise dying in tamas, one is born...
- 14.16The fruit of good action is said to be sattvic and pure; the fruit of rajas is pain; the fruit of tamas is...
- 14.17From sattva arises knowledge; from rajas, greed; from tamas arise negligence and delusion, and also ignorance.
- 14.18Those established in sattva go upward; those in rajas remain in the middle; those in tamas, abiding in the...
- 14.19When the seer perceives no doer other than the gunas, and knows that which is higher than the gunas, that...
- 14.20Having transcended these three gunas which are the source of the body, the embodied one, freed from birth...
- 14.21Arjuna said: By what marks is one who has transcended these three gunas known, O Lord? What is their...
- 14.22The Blessed Lord said: One who does not hate illumination, activity, or delusion when they are present...
- 14.23One who sits like one unconcerned, undisturbed by the gunas, knowing 'the gunas act,' who stands firm and...
- 14.24Equal in pleasure and pain, self-reliant, regarding a clod, stone, and gold as equal, the same toward...
- 14.25Equal in honor and dishonor, equal toward friend and foe, renouncing all undertakings, such a one is said...
- 14.26And one who serves Me with unswerving devotion, transcending these gunas, becomes fit for becoming Brahman.
- 14.27For I am the foundation of Brahman, the immortal, the imperishable, the eternal dharma, and absolute bliss.