The Fourteenth Teaching
Fourteenth Teaching Nature's (Prakriti's) Three Qualities (Gunas) 1-20 Krishna: I shall teach you further about true knowledge, ultimate knowledge, that all the sages have mastered and then reached perfection. Resorting to this knowledge, they follow my ways; when the world is created they are not reborn, when the world dissolves they suffer no sorrow. Nature is my womb; in it I place my seed, and from nature bursts forth the origin of all beings. Nature is the primal womb of all life forms that develop, and I am their seed-giving father. Lucidity (sattva), passion (rajas), and dark inertia (tamas)-the three qualities (gunas) inherent in nature bind the deathless self, atman, to the body. Of the three, lucidity, pure, luminous and without decay binds us by means of attachment to happiness and wisdom, Arjuna. Passion is emotional, born of craving...
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