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mama yonir mahad brahma tasmin garbhaḿ dadhāmy aham sambhavaḥ sarva-bhūtānāḿ tato bhavati bhārata Translation of Bhagavad Gita 14.3 The total material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, and it is that Brahman...

sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya mūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥ tāsāḿ brahma mahad yonir ahaḿ bīja-pradaḥ pitā Translation of Bhagavad Gita 14.4 It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kunti, are made possible by birth...

sattvam rajas tama iti gunah prakriti-sambhavah nibadhnanti maha-baho dehe dehinam avyayam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 14.5 Material nature consists of three modes—goodness, passion and ignorance. When the eternal living entity...

tatra sattvaḿ nirmalatvāt prakāśakam anāmayam sukha-sańgena badhnāti jñāna-sańgena cānagha Translation of Bhagavad Gita 14.6 O sinless one, the mode of goodness, being purer than the others, is illuminating, and it frees one...

rajo rāgātmakaḿ viddhi tṛṣṇā-sańga-samudbhavam tan nibadhnāti kaunteya karma-sańgena dehinam Translation of Bhagavad Gita 14.7 The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kunti, and because of...

tamas tv ajñāna-jaḿ viddhi mohanaḿ sarva-dehinām pramādālasya-nidrābhis tan nibadhnāti bhārata Translation of Bhagavad Gita 14.8 O son of Bharata, know that the mode of darkness, born of ignorance, is the delusion of all...

sattvaḿ sukhe sañjayati rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata jñānam āvṛtya tu tamaḥ pramāde sañjayaty uta Translation of Bhagavad Gita 14.9 O son of Bharata, the mode of goodness conditions one to happiness; passion conditions one to...

rajas tamaś cābhibhūya sattvaḿ bhavati bhārata rajaḥ sattvaḿ tamaś caiva tamaḥ sattvaḿ rajas tathā Translation of Bhagavad Gita 14.10 Sometimes the mode of goodness becomes prominent, defeating the modes of passion and...

sarva-dvāreṣu dehe ’smin prakāśa upajāyate jñānaḿ yadā tadā vidyād vivṛddhaḿ sattvam ity uta Translation of Bhagavad Gita 14.11 The manifestations of the mode of goodness can be experienced when all the gates of the body are...

lobhaḥ pravṛttir ārambhaḥ karmaṇām aśamaḥ spṛhā rajasy etāni jāyante vivṛddhe bharatarṣabha Translation of Bhagavad Gita 14.12 O chief of the Bharatas, when there is an increase in the mode of passion the symptoms of...