SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n
Chapter 14<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 14 verse 4<\/a><\/p>\n sathvam rajas thama ithi guNA: prakruthisambhavA: |<\/em> mahAbAhO – Oh mighty armed arjuna! Oh mighty armed arjuna! These three qualities namely sathvam (goodness), rajas (passion) and thamas (ignorance) which are always united with matter are binding the jIvAthmA in his body, who (naturally) does not have the inferiority of being together with the qualities and is dwelling in the body.<\/p>\n ‘Satvam, Rajas, Tamas[1. Vide footnote 1 to verse 2.45<\/a>], are qualities matter-born, which, O Great-armed! bind the imperishable ego in the body.’<\/span><\/p>\n Satvam, Rajas and Tamas are the three qualities (or affections or humours or tempers) of matter=those inhering<\/a> in the matter-stuff. To matter they stand in the relation of attributes, and their existence is to be inferred from the effects which they are instrumental in producing such as brightness (of disposition, dullness etc).<\/span><\/p>\n These qualities are in a latent state in matter when unevolved; but manifest<\/a> in its evolutes[2. meaning<\/em>: those that evolve from], Mahat etc.<\/span><\/p>\n And they impound in a body, the essentially free soul, but forced withal<\/a> to dwell in bodies such as those of deva, man etc., \u2014forms manufactured, from out of the Mahat and other evolutes[3. meaning<\/em>: those that evolve from] of matter-stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n The properties severally of Satvam, Rajas and Tamas, and the mode of their binding the souls are now described:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 14 verse 6<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 14 << Chapter 14 verse 4 SlOkam \u2013 Original sathvam rajas thama ithi guNA: prakruthisambhavA: | nibadhnanthi mahAbAhO dhEhE dhEhinam avyayam || word-by-word meaning mahAbAhO – Oh mighty armed arjuna! sathvam raja: thama: ithi guNA: – these three qualities namely sathvam (goodness), rajas (passion) … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-14","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n nibadhnanthi mahAbAhO dhEhE dhEhinam avyayam ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nsathvam raja: thama: ithi guNA: – these three qualities namely sathvam (goodness), rajas (passion) and thamas (ignorance)
\nprakruthi sambhavA: – always united with matter
\navyayam – one who (naturally) does not have the inferiority of being together with the qualities
\ndhEhinam – jIvAthmA who is dwelling in the body
\ndhEhE – in his body
\nnibadhnanthi – binding him.<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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