Chapter 14
Guṇa-traya (गुण-त्रय)
Sattva, rajas, tamas. Going beyond the three.
Summary
Chapter 14 is the three strands. Sattva binds by happiness and by knowledge, rajas by action and by thirst, tamas by negligence, laziness, and sleep. How they show in a person, and how they are crossed, is the middle of the chapter. The one who has crossed is the same to honour and dishonour, and he serves Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) with a bhakti that is not shaken.
नेपालीमा
अध्याय १४ तीन गुणको विषय हो। सत्त्व सुख र ज्ञानले बाँध्छ, रजस् कर्म र तृष्णाले, तमस् प्रमाद, आलस्य र निद्राले। ती व्यक्तिमा कसरी देखिन्छन् र कसरी नाघिन्छन् भन्ने कुरा अध्यायको बीचमा आउँछ। नाघेको व्यक्ति मान र अपमानमा समान हुन्छ, र नहल्लिने भक्तिले कृष्णको सेवा गर्छ।
1–10 श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · The three bind
Summary
The three bind. The supreme knowledge is declared again. The great nature is the womb, and he is the father who plants the germ. Sattva, rajas, and tamas, born of nature, bind the embodied one in the body. Each binds by a different rope. The section names the ropes before it says how they look.
नेपालीमा
तीन गुणले बाँध्छन्। परम ज्ञान फेरि भनिन्छ। महान् प्रकृति गर्भ हो, र बीज रोप्ने पिता उहाँ हुनुहुन्छ। प्रकृतिबाट जन्मेका सत्त्व, रजस् र तमस् देहीलाई शरीरमा बाँध्छन्। हरेकले फरक डोरीले बाँध्छ। खण्डले कसरी देखिन्छन् भन्नुअघि डोरीहरूको नाम लिन्छ।
11–20 श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · How they show, and how they are crossed
Summary
How they show, and how they are crossed. When light floods every gate of the body, sattva has grown. Greed, activity, and unrest are rajas. Darkness, inactivity, and negligence are tamas. The one who crosses the three is not shaken when they play. He stands as if indifferent. The crossing is said as a description of that person.
नेपालीमा
कसरी देखिन्छन्, र कसरी नाघिन्छन्। शरीरको हरेक ढोकामा प्रकाश छाउँदा सत्त्व बढेको हो। लोभ, उद्यम र अशान्ति रजस् हुन्। अन्धकार, अकर्मण्यता र प्रमाद तमस् हुन्। तीन गुण नाघ्ने व्यक्ति ती गुणले खेल्दा पनि हल्लिँदैन। ऊ उदासीनझैँ उभिन्छ। नाघ्ने कुरा त्यस व्यक्तिको वर्णनका रूपमा भनिएको हो।
21–27 Arjuna (अर्जुन), श्रीभगवान् Śrī Bhagavān · The one who has crossed
Summary
The one who has crossed. Arjuna asks for the marks and the conduct. The reply is sameness toward honour and dishonour, friend and foe, and a steadiness that does not start a new project from the strands. One who serves Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) with an unfailing bhakti yoga crosses. The section makes devotion the way past the three, and identifies him with the ground of Brahman.
नेपालीमा
नाघेको व्यक्ति। अर्जुनले चिह्न र आचरण सोध्छन्। जवाफ मान र अपमान, मित्र र शत्रुमा समानता, र गुणबाट नयाँ योजना नथाल्ने स्थिरता हो। अविचल भक्तियोगले कृष्णको सेवा गर्नेले नाघ्छ। खण्डले भक्तिलाई तीन गुणभन्दा परको बाटो बनाउँछ, र उहाँलाई ब्रह्मको आधारसँग चिनाउँछ।