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Verse 14·19

Seeing beyond the guṇas

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नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति ।गुणेभ्यश्च परं वेत्ति मद्भावं सोऽधिगच्छति ॥

nānyaṃ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraṃ yadā draṣṭānupaśyatiguṇebhyaśca paraṃ vetti madbhāvaṃ so’dhigacchati

When the seer perceives that the modes of Nature are the whole agency and cause of works and knows and turns to That which is supreme above the gunas, he attains to madbhāvaṁ (the movement and status of the Divine).

Gītā 14·19

To see that the modes of Nature are the whole agency and cause of our works and to know and turn to that which is supreme above the gunas, is the way to rise above the lower nature. Only so can we attain to the movement and status of the Divine, mad-bhāva, by which free from subjection to birth and death and their concomitants, decay, old age and suffering, the liberated soul shall enjoy in the end immortality and all that is eternal.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 432

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