Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14 - Lesson 5 of 7: Where Do We Go From Here?

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY: IDENTIFY YOUR GUNAS!

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MATERIAL NEEDED:

Notebook

PROCEDURE:

Let's practice the technique to complete with our root patterns and cultivate satva guna.

Step 1: List down your most recurring thoughts, most revisited memories, your belief about yourself, words you most often use to describe yourself, and your longstanding habits.

Step 2: Try to recognize which one of the three root patterns, guṇas— satva, rajas and tamas, the thoughts and actions you listed arise from. Contemplate on what disempowering cognition that guṇa is building inside us about our inner image (mamakāra), our outer-image (ahaṃkāra), others' image (anyakāra), others' expectation about us, and life's image (svānyakāra).

Step 3: Do the completion and the creation process; do completion with that guṇa or root pattern and do creation of the satva guṇa, the right inner space to create the reality that we want.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY: IDENTIFY YOUR GUNAS!

INFERENCE:

If we are complete, unattached and undisturbed by all that is happening in and around us, we act out of satva guṇa. Finally we transcend satva guṇa and enter into nirguṇa or ‘no guṇa state’.

A portrait of an enlightened being, Nithyananda Paramashivam, adorned with rudraksha beads and traditional accessories, surrounded by feather motifs.