Chapter XIV - The Yoga of the three gunas, Sattva ( goodness ), Rajas ( passion ) and Tamas ( stupor, laziness and sloth ).
Every jeevaathma ( atomic soul ) has three gunas ( qualities ) in some degree and magnitude. The three gunas are sattva ( goodness ), rajas ( passion ) and tamas ( sloth, laziness and stupor).
Depending on our past and present karmas, these three gunas , rule us. If we have done / doing benevolent acts Sattva, goodness will rule , if we perform greater acts of passion , of fruitful actions etc Rajas rules and if we are permanently in death like state, laziness and absolute inaction , then the worst of the three gunas , tamas predominates our actions. One thing is very clear , apart from the liberated souls , our cosmic master Lord SriKrishna and our cosmic mother Sri Maha Lakshmi Amma , all these three gunas will exist in us.
Each of us have to make every attempt under the sole guidance of our Lord SriKrishna to perform saatvik acts thereby leading our souls to higher planes, raajasik acts lead us to temporary residence of action and tamasic acts directly land a soul to the lowest form of existence such as the beasts , insects and reptiles and even still worse forms.
Tamas is the lowest form of existence, if in this very limited transient period , we are unable to upgrade ourselves to satva guna we have definitely ruined the very core purpose of elevating ourselves thereby diving low beneath the ground level.
Our Lord SriKrishna's message has to be, first very attentively listened to, second deciphered rightly and above all thirdly implemented to the full satisfaction of our Lord SriKrishna. If any blunder, at any stage occurs , the results are very disastrous, no retrieval possible, only permanent irreversible damage .
While we are dwelling on such powerful tenets of life, so authored by our Lord SriKrishna himself , we have to be very vigilant in its implementation and at all times seek the divine most guidance of our lord SriKrishna himself for who better than our sole cosmic head to rescue and mentor us. Not possible by any other entity at all, only the supreme personality of god head , our Lord SriKrishna can bail us out here and hereafter.
The satvika persons ascends upwards, the rajasika person is positioned in the middle whereas the tamasika person sinks rock bottom.
Those who view all the pairs of opposites , the joy and the sorrow, the good and the bad, life and death in an absolutely calm and composed mind ( Sthithprajna , equanimous mind ) , treats the highest and the lowest as one and the same reaches our Lord SriKrishna. The rajasika person governed by passion , fruitful actions, greed etc is tossed and turned by the vicious cycles of life and birth and the Tamasika person ,forever in death like state , aimlessly wanders as a ghost and a vampire and will never ever be redeemed until he elevates and reforms that too very quickly before leaving his mortal coil. Once the body is shed, immediately the karmas start acting.
With this , we can wonder with awe and admiration of our super marvellous creator , our Lord SriKrishna . What a nitya vibhuti ! that an ordinary mortal can even dream of understanding, such is the immeasurable towering heights of our Lord SriKrishna. Only genius !.
If at our micro atomic existence , are able to appreciate our Lord SriKrishna and his powers , at our non existent stature, we stand blessed by our creator lord SriGovinda. By not doing anything at all, but by merely looking up to our Lord SriKrishna , half the purpose of our life is solved and discharged accurately, the other half wholeheartedly surrendering unto the divine most beautiful lotus feet of our Lord SriKrishna is fulfilled in total. The simplest of simple art and science with 100% guaranteed success.
All the three gunas has to be transcended by us now , the only supermost authority who can help us in this extremely complicated tough process is our Lord SriKrishna. We need to gently surrender our heaviest karmic load unto our Lord.
Our SriKrishna will burn all our sins like huge inflamed bales of cotton . Within seconds, the whole lot is destroyed, so also, if we entrust ourselves to our Lord SriKrishna without any analysis , our Lord SriKrishna will effortlessly unburden us of the heaviest weight of our bad karmas of the countless births we have passed through and bring the much needed relief and solace to our withered body and tormented soul.
Om Tat Sat
Hare Krishna hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.
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