रजस्तमश्चाभिभूय सत्त्वं भवति भारत | रजः सत्त्वं तमश्चैव तमः सत्त्वं रजस्तथा
rajastamaścābhibhūya sattvaṃ bhavati bhārata . rajaḥ sattvaṃ tamaścaiva tamaḥ sattvaṃ rajastathā
婆羅多後裔啊，悅性（Sattva）透過壓制羅闍（Rajas）和答磨（Tamas）而增長；羅闍（Rajas）透過壓倒悅性（Sattva）和答磨（Tamas）而增長；答磨（Tamas）則透過支配悅性（Sattva）和羅闍（Rajas）而增長。
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.
正如冬日當夏秋已逝時佔據主導，正如睡眠在人既不夢也不醒時佔據主導，同樣，當羅闍（Rajas）和答磨（Tamas）被壓制時，悅性（Sattva）便佔據主導，使人們感到快樂。增加悅性（Sattva）的修行方法在第17和18章中有所闡述。這三種屬性在不同時間輪流發揮作用，它們不能同時全部運作。當其中一種屬性透過壓倒或抑制其他兩種而顯現或佔據主導時，它就會產生其自身的影響。悅性（Sattva）產生知識和幸福；羅闍（Rajas）產生行動；答磨（Tamas）則遮蔽知識、產生惰性、錯誤、怠惰、懶散和睡眠。當悅性（Sattva）在一個人身上佔據上風時，他便具備辨別力，崇高的思想在他心中流轉，他擁有純淨的理解力，他的心智從感官享樂中轉向內在，朝向真我。那麼，如何辨別某種屬性是佔主導地位或正在增長呢？答案將在接下來的三節經文中給出。
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.