ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये ।मत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि न त्वहं तेषु ते मयि ॥
ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasāstāmasāśca yematta eveti tānviddhi na tvahaṃ teṣu te mayi
And as for the secondary subjective becomings of Nature, bhāvaḥ which are sattwic, rajasic and tamasic, they are verily from me, but I am not in them, it is they that are in Me.
Gītā 7·12…as for the secondary subjective becomings of Nature, bhāvaḥ (states of mind, affections of desire, movements of passion, the reactions of the senses, the limited and dual play of reason, the turns of the feeling and moral sense), which are sattwic, rajasic and tamasic, as for the working of the three gunas, they are… not themselves the pure action of the supreme spiritual nature, but are derivations from it;… Here is indeed a strong and yet subtle distinction. “I am” says the Divine “the essential light, strength, desire, power, intelligence, but these derivations from them I am not in my essence, nor am I in them, yet are they all of them from me and they are all in my being.”
In this relation of the divine bhāvaḥ to the svabhāvaḥ and of the svabhāvaḥ to the superficial bhāvaḥ, of the divine Nature to the individual self-nature and of the self-nature in its pure and original quality to the phenomenal nature in all its mixed and confused play of qualities, we find the link between that supreme and this lower existence.
