Guna-Tray-Vibhaga Yoga
Guna-Tray-Vibhaga Yoga
Triplicity of Nature - The Guna Squad
Krishna continued:
“I shall again, dear Arjuna, speak about highest wisdom that surpasses all understanding of common intellect; with which sages at the end have attained the supreme siddhi perfection. Embracing this wisdom, established in my Being, even at the beginning of a new cosmic day you’ll not be forced to be reborn, nor be troubled at the time of cosmic dissolution.
“In Prakriti I deposit my seed of cosmic intelligence, the Mahat. Thence starts the work of creation. Of all forms, whatever may be, Prakriti is their original mother, and I - Bramha, I am their original daddy.
“There even as a fetus the triplicity of the modes of Prakriti, the gunas known as: saliva, rajas & tamas, peace, passion & crumminess, bind the body of the imperishable soul; turning it into a doll of distorted ego.
“The first fetter is best, the peacefulness, sattva, Yet, - however brilliant sattva is though producing light & health & airiness, still it is a golden fetter that binds the mind and intellect to attachment to happiness & knowledge.
“The second fetter rajas, though silver binds you with works of a selfish end. The very nature of rajas is enticing to work, giving birth to desire & attachment, binding the soul to work and expectations of fulfillment.
“Tamas is the iron fetter arising from ignorance, its nature is being full of wrongness: wrong ideas, actions, etc. It keeps one under the drug of carelessness, indolence & procrastination. Then does over sleeping, closing doors to partially evolving actions of rajas and most uplifting actions of sattva. Like animal to them just body is everything.
“Sattva involves you with joy, rajas with work, tamas, eclipsing the intelligence, indulges in dullness and putting-off attitudes.
“Overtaking indolence & work discretion & peace arise at times. Overtaking work & discretion procrastination arises other times. Overtaking foggy mentality of hyperactive business, efficiency & excellency arise too. When and when body feels energetic, senses feel alive, alert, mind feels receptive to knowledge, and then know for sure, the mode of knowledge is taking over. Whenever restlessness arises desire, passion, fruit-impressions pop-up, selfishness, turbulence of mind, lust, hankering for music, TV, tastes, talks, movies, then that is the rajas coming up. When and when you fail to develop intelligence by performance of duty there then arises tamas, like werewolf right from inside you-look at your body, -what it becoming? Stagnation and bewilderment and feeling exhausted, inactive, slothful, misunderstanding, being baked in sizzling process of oven of worry & depression, no opening for good changes, heart & mind become foggy and stone like.
“If you die in the predominance of sattva your subtle body goes to Svah, celestial heaven-like kingdom. If you die during working selfishly, mode of rajas, desiring or lusty, then you are reborn again having destiny of being more heavy worker, with much suffering. If you die in the werewolf-coming out state while dully & foggy, head all sleepy, in stupor, fear and agitation, of the atma unaware totally, falling unconscious, then you are born in animalistic families and bestial people, or remain in sufferingful species or dark regions of astral spheres.
“Fruit of sattvic actions is followed by harmony and organized rhythm of life, search for wisdom and indifference to mediocrity. Impact of rise of rajas is marked by wrong ambition and hectic works. Symptoms of rise of tamas is unbecoming behavior, irritation, aimless action, contempt for others’ good advice, etcetera.
“If you absorb sattva mode your understanding & guesses will always be correct. Discretion and intuition will be easily flowing; your mind will be staying comfortably in 3rd eye center or 1000 petalled lotus on the top of the head. You will always care for other’s feelings more than your own emotions.
“If you live by rajas mode you will be self-centered and a hectic worker. Your mind will stay outside dorsal plexus, therefore you’ll have very stone-like likes and dislikings. You will care only for your own feelings. You’ll not be able to care for others or make harmony and adjustment. You will not feel bad about hurting other’s feelings. You will be more possessive and selfish, more rapidly striving for pleasures of body.
“If you live by tamas mode you will be manic-depressive and enjoy the rush and thrive on tension& acute case of mood-swing. Your biological clock would be upset with any ordinary reason. Because of sadistic or masochistic tendencies the mind will stay in coccygeal plexus, at times a little higher
“Sattvic people after death rise to angelic planes of existence. Rajasic ones are born as humans time and again and tamasic ones fall to lower species like animals and insects.
“Whenever it happens in your life that you begin to see it is only the gunas which arc acting on the gunas and all actions of the world are interactions of gunas, they are neither your’s nor God’s, and you are the seer of this motion picture on VCR big screen of your 60 inch TV, in your living room sitting on loveseat, you like a child are laying on the lap of your loving father, the God, watching the lifesize movie a mere dance of shadows and lights, this is all this world is; then you go free from birth, old age & death and become immortal.”
Arjuna asks:
“My Lord, What are the symptoms of the mode-transcended person? How does he behave? What are the methods through which he rises beyond nature’s triplicity?”
Krishna says:
“When light comes & goes, activities come and go, and ignorance comes and goes, and you neither abhor nor deplore, but remain unperturbed, uninvolved, unconcerned, you stay watching gunas acting with the gunas, and never move a single inch from your orientation upon the pulpit; staying firm on the sacred alter of discretion; unaffected, unexcited, unagitated & not nervous of comings and goings of sorrows & joys, praises & blames; seeing clay & stone & gold all with the same eye, all alike, pleasant & unpleasant all alike firmly even-minded; maintaining oceanic calm in respect and insult, in friend & enemy and in the start of all master plannings, that one has no tinge of personal doership; Arjuna, Oh Arjuna, it is this gentleman who has transcended the triplicity of gunas.
“Answering your last question regarding the method. I would say - - -by unswerving devotion. Fill with this your heart so much that no space is left for anything else, in all the three states: waking, dreaming & deep deep sleep, none else should remain except love, love & love alone, no selfishness, no self thought left at all; O dear Arjuna, I am the pratistha, the basis of Absolute Bramha and the nectarine life in dharma as well as the unalloyed, juicy bliss of absolute lovingness. Of course too subtle, hut got to see it or trust me dear friend.
“Seeing is the path of jnana yoga, trusting is the path of bhakti yoga. Thru love or understanding you reach the same point: Me. And getting Me is finding your self dear. Attaining Me is attaining your own true identity. And not in tracing your roots, your lost parents, brothers or sisters, or some ancient ancestry in far-distant parts of the world. Nope. -I am none else but Bramha; the primordial Reality; upon which the creation, maintenance and dissolutions of nations, civilizations & universes are appearing to you… To you due to your passionate clinging; clinging on those which have no existence, like a dog closed in a cell of mirrors barking at its own reflection; like a thirsty deer, leaping and galloping in the forest trying to drink a mirage. That’s how people of the world are. Therefore dear, read my lips-hearken to my words- listen to my heart’s song- that’s both– the path and the goal too.”
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