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Bhagavad Gita / Chapter 14 / Verse 22
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Bhagavad Gita 14.22

Sanskrit
Hindi
Sanskrit

श्रीभगवानुवाच | प्रकाशं च प्रवृत्तिं च मोहमेव च पाण्डव | न द्वेष्टि सम्प्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि काङ्क्षति

Transliteration

śrībhagavānuvāca . prakāśaṃ ca pravṛttiṃ ca mohameva ca pāṇḍava . na dveṣṭi sampravṛttāni na nivṛttāni kāṅkṣati

English

The Blessed Lord said O son of Pandu, he neither dislikes illumination (knowledge), activity and delusion when they appear, nor does he long for them when they disappear.

हिन्दी

श्रीभगवान् ने कहा -- हे पाण्डव ! (ज्ञानी पुरुष) प्रकाश, प्रवृत्ति और मोह के प्रवृत्त होने पर भी उनका द्वेष नहीं करता तथा निवृत्त होने पर उनकी आकांक्षा नहीं करता है।।

Explanation — English

This is the answer to Arjunas first estion. Light is the effect of Sattva? activity of Rajas and delusion of Tamas. The liberated sage does not hate them when they are present. When Sattva shines he is not carried away by pride. He does not think? I am a vey learned man. When the impulse for action is awakened in the body or when there is a divine call for him to do work for the solidarity of the world (Lokasangraha) he does not hate any action and he does not regret it after the action is accomplished. He feels no remorse while performing actions. The work is like the play of a child. While inertia increases in him? he is not deluded by infatuation.Only an ignorant man thinks Tamas has entered into me. I am deluded. I am under the influence of heedlessness? torpor? sloth? laziness and indolence. Now I am under the influence of Rajas. I am forced to do activities. This is painful. I have fallen from my true nature. This gives me a lot of pain. Now Sattva predominates in me. I am attached to happiness and knowledge. I am proud of my learning and better status.The liberated sage who has transcended the Gunas does not thus hate them when they are present.A man of Sattva or Rajas or Tamas longs for light? action or inertia which first manifested themselves and disappeared. But a liberated sage or one who has gone beyond the three alities does not at all long for these states which have vanished. This mark or characteristic is an internal mental state. It cannot be perceived or detected by others. It can be felt by ones own self alone. If one is endowed with clairvoyant vision or the inner eye of intuition? he can directly behold the longins that arise in the mind of another man.In the following three verses the Lord gives His answer to Arjunas second estion What is the conduct of the sage who has crossed over the Gunas

Explanation — हिन्दी

जो उपाधियां या वस्तुएं तीन गुणों का कार्य हैं केवल उन पर ही त्रिगुणों का प्रभाव पड़ सकता है? उनसे परे आत्मतत्त्व पर नहीं। अत आत्मज्ञान होने के पश्चात् भी ये उपाधियां पूर्ववत् व्यवहार करती रहती हैं और उनपर गुणों का प्रभाव भी पड़ सकता है। परन्तु ज्ञानी पुरुष उनसे किसी प्रकार से तादात्म्य नहीं करता। समस्त परिस्थितियों में सदैव समत्व भाव में स्थित रहना अनुभवी पुरुष का प्रमुख लक्षण है और यही पूर्णत्व का सार है।प्रकाश? प्रवृत्ति और मोह ये क्रमश सत्त्व? रज और तमोगुण के कार्य हैं। यहाँ त्रिगुणों का निर्देश उनके कार्यों के द्वारा किया गया है। सामान्यत अज्ञानी मनुष्य के मन में जब रजोगुण के कार्य विक्षेप अथवा तमोगुण के कार्य निद्रा? प्रमाद आदि प्रभावशाली होते हैं? तब वह उनका द्वेष करता है और सत्त्वगुण के कार्य ज्ञान? सुख और शान्ति के होने पर वह उनसे प्रीति रखता है। सत्त्वगुण निवृत्त हो जाय तो वह उसकी इच्छा करके उसके लिये लालायित रहता है। इन सबका कारण त्रिगुणों के साथ अविद्यामूलक तादात्म्य है।ज्ञानी की स्थिति अज्ञानी से सर्वथा भिन्न होती है। वह जानता है कि त्रिगुणों का साक्षी आत्मा उन गुणों तथा उनके कार्यों से सदैव असंगअसंस्पृष्ट रहता है। अत वह रज और तम के प्रवृत्त होने पर न उनसे द्वेष रखता है और न सत्त्वगुण के प्रवृत्त होने की कामना। उसकी सुखशान्ति इन गुणों की प्रवृत्ति अथवा निवृत्ति पर निर्भर नहीं करती। किसी लखपति धनी व्यक्ति को संयोगवशात् पचीस पैसे मिलने या न मिलने से कोई अन्तर नहीं पड़ता। ऐसा हो सकता है कि कभी वह नीचे झुककर उस पैसे के सिक्के को उठा ले? किन्तु उसे वह? हर्षातिरेक नहीं होगा? जो एक दरिद्र व्यक्ति को समान परिस्थिति में होता होगा।इस प्रकार? समस्त उपाधियों के तादात्म्य को त्यागकर आत्मानुभूति में रमा पुरुष ही त्रिगुणातीत या मुक्त कहलाता है। संसार के दुख उसे कदापि विचलित नहीं कर सकते।अब? उस ज्ञानी पुरुष के आचरण का वर्णन करते हैं

Sanskrit
English
प्रकाशम्
light
च
and
प्रवृत्तिम्
activity
च
and
मोहम्
delusion
एव
even
च
and
पाण्डव
O Arjuna
न
not
द्वेष्टि
hates
सम्प्रवृत्तानि (when)
gone forth
न
not
निवृत्तानि
when absent
काङ्क्षति
longs.
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14.1The Blessed Lord said I shall speak again of the supreme Knowledge, the best of all knowledges, by realizing which all the contemplatives reached the highest Perfection from here.14.2Those who attain identity with Me by resorting of this Knowledge are not born even during creation, nor do they suffer pain during dissolution.14.3My womb is the great-sustainer. In that I place the seed. From that, O scion of the Bharata dynasty, occurs the birth of all things.14.4O son of Kunti, whatever forms are born from all the wombs, of them the great-sustainer is the womb; I am the father who deposits the seed.14.5O mighty-armed one, the alities, viz sattva, rajas and tamas, born of Nature, being the immutable embodies being to the body.14.6Among them, sattva, being pure, [Nirmala, pure-transparent, i.e., capable of resisting any form of ignorance, and hence as illuminator, i.e.a revealer of Consciousness.] is an illuminator and is harmless. O sinless one, it binds through attachment to happiness and attachment to knowledge.14.7Know rajas to be of the nature of passion, born of hankering and attachment. O son of Kunti, that binds the embodied one through attachment to action.14.8On the other hand, know tamas, which deludes all embodied beings, to be born of ignorance. O scion of the Bharata dynasty, that binds through inadvertence, laziness and sleep.14.9O scion of the Bharata dynasty, sattva attaches one to happiness, rajas to action, while tamas, covering up knowledge, leads to inadvertence also.14.10O scion of the Bharata dynasty, sattva increases by subduing rajas and tamas, rajas by overpowering sattva and tamas, and tamas by dominating over sattva and rajas.