The Yoga of the Division of the Three Gunas

Guṇa-traya-vibhāga-yoga

Rise like the sun above the clouds of the three modes, and let an undeviating love carry you beyond them into the foundation that is the Purushottama. — The Delight of Krishna

The soul enters in

kṣetrajña — the Knower who sees, yet still bound by the strands of the Field

and is led towards

guṇātīta — the soul risen above the three modes, founded in the Purushottama

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Summary of chapter 14

Above the Gunas - The Gila now proceeds to work out its ideas of the action of the gunas. of the ascension beyond the gunas and of the culmination of desireless works in knowledge where knowledge coalesces with bhaktl. - knowledge. works and love made one. - and it rises thence to its great finale. the supreme secret of self-surrender to the Master of Existence.

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Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

14·22प्रकाशं च प्रवृत्तिं च मोहमेव च पाण्डव । न द्वेष्टि सम्प्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि काङ्क्षति ॥ २२ ॥prakāśaṁ ca pravṛttiṁ ca mohameva ca pāṇḍava, ta dveṣṭi sampravṛttāni na nivṛttāni kāṅkṣati.He, O Pandava, who does not abhor or shrink from the operation of enlightenment (the result of rising sattva)…
14·23, a key verseउदासीनवदासीनो गुणैर्यो न विचाल्यते । गुणा वर्तन्त इत्येव योऽवतिष्ठति नेङ्गते ॥ २३ ॥udāsīnavadāsīno guṇairyo na vicālyate, guṇā vartanta ityeva yo’vatiṣṭhati neṅgate.He who, established in a position as of one seated high above, is unshaken by the gunas…
14·24समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः । तुल्यप्रियाप्रियो धीरस्तुल्यनिन्दात्मसंस्तुतिः ॥ २४ ॥samaduḥkhasukhaḥ svasthaḥ samaloṣṭāśmakāñcanaḥ, tulyapriyāpriyo dhīrastulyanindātmasaṁstutiḥ.He who regards happiness and suffering alike, gold and mud and stone as of equal value, to whom the pleasant…
14·25मानापमानयोस्तुल्यस्तुल्यो मित्रारिपक्षयोः । सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी गुणातीतः स उच्यते ॥ २५ ॥mānāpamānayostulyastulyo mitrāripakṣayoḥ, sarvārambhaparityāgī guṇātītaḥ sa ucyate.To whom the honour and insult, the faction of his friends and the faction of his enemies are equal things…
14·26, a key verseमां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते । स गुणान्समतीत्यैतान्ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते ॥ २६ ॥māṁ ca yo’vyabhicāreṇa bhaktiyogena sevate, sa guṇānsamatītyaitānbrahmabhūyāya kalpate.He also who loves and strives after Me with an undeviating love and adoration, passes beyond the three gunas…
14·27, a key verseब्रह्मणो हि प्रतिष्ठाहममृतस्याव्ययस्य च । शाश्वतस्य च धर्मस्य सुखस्यैकान्तिकस्य च ॥ २७ ॥brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāhamamṛtasyāvyayasya ca, śāśvatasya ca dharmasya sukhasyaikāntikasya ca.I (the Purushottama) am the foundation of the silent Brahman and of Immortality and imperishable spiritual…

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ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सुब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादेगुणत्रयविभागयोगो नाम चतुर्दशोऽध्यायः ॥ १४॥

om tatsaditi śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvādeguṇatrayavibhāgayogo nāma caturdaśo’dhyāyaḥ

Thus, in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the science of Brahman, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends the fourteenth chapter entitled “The Yoga of the Threefold Modes of Nature”

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