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Verse 3·29

The gunas perform all work, ego deludes

Verse

प्रकृतेर्गुणसंमूढाः सज्जन्ते गुणकर्मसु ।तानकृत्स्नविदो मन्दान् कृत्स्नविन्न विचालयेत् ॥

prakṛterguṇasaṃmūḍhāḥ sajjante guṇakarmasutānakṛtsnavido mandān kṛtsnavinna vicālayet

Those who are bewildered by the modes and attached to the actions of the modes, not knowers of the whole, let not the knower of the whole disturb in their mental standpoint.

Gītā 3·29

There are, in fact, different planes of our conscious existence, and what is practical truth on one plane ceases to be true, because it assumes a quite different appearance, as soon as we rise to a higher level from which we can see things more in the whole.

The Gita itself makes a distinction between those who have not the knowledge of the whole, akṛtsnavidaḥ, and are misled by the partial truths of existence, and the Yogin who has the synthetic knowledge of the totality, kṛtsnavit To see all existence steadily and see it whole and not be misled by its conflicting truths, is the first necessity for the calm and complete wisdom to which the Yogin is called upon to rise.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 213

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