Bhagavad Gītā: Chapter 7: Text 12
Bhagavad Gītā: Chapter seven: Knowledge of the Absolute, Text 12
ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा
राजसास् तामसाश् च ये│
ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā
rājasās tāmasāś ca ye
मत्त एवेति तान् विद्धि न
त्वहं तेषु ते मयि ││ १२││
matta eveti tān viddhi na
tvahaṁ teṣu te mayi
Vocabulary
ye—all
which; ca—and; eva—certainly; sāttvikāḥ—in goodness; bhāvāḥ—states
of being; rājasāḥ—in the mode of
passion; tāmasāḥ—in the mode of ignorance; ca—also; ye—all
which; mattaḥ—from Me; eva—certainly; iti—thus; tān—those;
viddhi—try to know; na—not; tu—but; aham—I; teṣu—in
them; te—they; mayi—in Me.
Translate
the following verse into English
Know that all states of being—be
they of goodness, passion or ignorance—are manifested by My energy. I am, in
one sense, everything, but I am independent. I am not under the modes of
material nature, for them, on the contrary, are within Me.
Figure 03: All material activities in the world are being
conducted under the three modes of material nature. Although these material
modes of nature are emanations from the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, He is not
subject to them. (7.12 purport)
Purport
and Brief out the Moral teachings in the following verse
All material activities in the world
are being conducted under the three modes of material nature. Although these
material modes of nature are emanations from the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, He
is not subject to them. For instance, under the state laws one may be punished,
but the king, the lawmaker, is not subject to that law.
Similarly, all the modes of material nature—goodness, passion and
ignorance—are emanations from the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, but Kṛṣṇa is
not subject to material nature. Therefore He is nirguṇa, which means
that these guṇas, or modes, although issuing from Him, do not affect
Him. That is one of the special characteristics of Bhagavān, or the
Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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