रजस्तमश्चाभिभूय सत्त्वं भवति भारत | रजः सत्त्वं तमश्चैव तमः सत्त्वं रजस्तथा
rajastamaścābhibhūya sattvaṃ bhavati bhārata . rajaḥ sattvaṃ tamaścaiva tamaḥ sattvaṃ rajastathā
婆罗多族后裔啊，悦性（sattva）通过压制激性（rajas）和惰性（tamas）而增长；激性通过压倒悦性与惰性而增长；惰性则通过主宰悦性与激性而增长。
O 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.
正如夏季和秋季过去后冬季占据主导，正如一个人既不梦游也不清醒时睡眠占据主导，同样，当激性（Rajas）和惰性（Tamas）被压制时，悦性（Sattva）便占据主导，使人们感到快乐。增加悦性的修行方法在第17和18章中给出。每一种德性都在不同时间轮流发挥作用，三种德性不能同时运作。当一种德性通过压倒或压制其他两种而显现或占据主导时，它会产生自己的效果。悦性产生知识和幸福；激性产生行动；惰性则遮蔽知识、导致迟钝、错误、怠惰、懒散和睡眠。当悦性在一个人身上占据优势时，他便具有辨别力，崇高的思想在他心中涌现，他拥有纯净的理解力，心智远离感官享乐，转向内在的真我。那么，如何判断哪种德性占据主导或正在增长呢？答案将在接下来的三节经文中给出。
Just as winter has its sway when summer and autumn have gone? just as sleep has its sway when a man is neither dreaming nor waking? so also Sattva has its sway when Rajas and Tamas are suppressed and makes people say that they are happy. The Sadhana for increasing Sattva is given in the 17th and 18th chapters.Each ality acts in its own turn at different times. All the three alities cannot operate at one and the same time. When one ality asserts itself or prdominates by overpowering or suppressing the other two? it produces its own effect. Sattva produces knowledge and happiness Rajas action Tamas veiling of knowledge? inertia? error? indolence? sloth and sleep. When Sattva is in the ascendant in a man? he is endowed with discrimination. Sublime thoughts roll in his mind. He has pure understanding. His mind turns away from sensual pleasures and moves inward towards the Self.What is the characteristic mark by which you can know that a particular ality is predominant or is in the ascendant The answer is given in the following three verses.