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Chapter 14<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 14 verse 9<\/a><\/p>\n rajas thamaS chAbhibhUya sathvam bhavathi bhAratha |<\/em> bhAratha – Oh descendant of bharatha!<\/p>\n (among the three qualities in the body) Oh descendant of bharatha! (Among the three qualities in the body) Overpowering rajO guNam and thamO guNam, sathvam is predominant (at times); overpowering\u00a0 sathva guNam and thamO guNam, rajas is predominant (at times); overpowering rajO guNam and sathva guNam thamas is predominant (at times) in the same manner.<\/p>\n ‘Overpowering Rajas and Tamas, Bharata! Satvam prevails; Rajas, similarly, over Satvam and Tamas; and Tamas, over Satvam and Rajas.’<\/span><\/p>\n It is admitted that all the three, Satvam etc., are qualities attaching to matter-bound Souls. But owing to conditions imposed by past karma, and determined further by the varieties of food eaten for supporting the body, Satvam and other qualities so exist as one to predominate over the other, or working at cross purposes to each other; sometimes Satvam subordinating Rajas and Tamas, sometimes Rajas, and at other times Tamas.<\/span><\/p>\n That such is the case has to be inferred from the knowledge we have of (visible) effects (produced thereby):<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 14 verse 11<\/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 9 SlOkam \u2013 Original rajas thamaS chAbhibhUya sathvam bhavathi bhAratha | raja: sathvam thamaS chaiva thama: sathvam rajas thathA || word-by-word meaning bhAratha – Oh descendant of bharatha! (among the three qualities in the body) raja: thama: cha abhibhUya … 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-5940","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\/5940","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=5940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15825,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions\/15825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n raja: sathvam thamaS chaiva thama: sathvam rajas thathA ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nraja: thama: cha abhibhUya – overpowering rajO guNam and thamO guNam
\nsathvam bhavathi – sathvam is predominant (at times);
\nsathvam thama: cha (abhibhUya) – overpowering\u00a0 sathva guNam and thamO guNam
\nraja: Eva (bhavathi) – rajas alone is predominant (at times);
\nraja: sathvam thathA thathA (abhibhUya) – overpowering rajO guNam and sathva guNam in the same manner
\nthama: Eva (bhavathi) – thamas is predominant (at times).<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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