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

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if we are complete, unattached and undisturbed by all that is happening in and around us, we act out of satva guṇa.

14.19

नान्यं गुणेभ्यः कर्तारं यदा द्रष्टानुपश्यति ।
गुणेभ्यश्च परं वेत्ति मद्भावं सोऽधिगच्छति
॥ १४-१९ ॥

nānyaṁ guṇebhyaḥ kartāraṁ yadā
draṣṭānupaśyati guṇebhyaśca paraṁ vetti
madbhāvaṁ so'dhigacchati

When we see that there is nothing
beyond these modes of nature in all
activities and that the supreme Lord is
transcendental to all these modes, the
seeker can know My spiritual nature.

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Only the presence of super-conscious energy, the Enlightened Master can dissolve saṁskāras, the root patterns and burn out our vāsanas, the conflicting patterns developed through these root patterns and establish us in satva.

14.20

गुणानेतानतीत्य त्रीन्देही देहसमुद्द्भवान् ।
देहसमुद्द्भवान्जन्ममृत्युजरादुःखैर्विमुक्तोऽमृतमश्नुते
॥ १४=२०॥

guṇānetānatītya trīn dehī
dehasamudbhavān janma-mṛtyu-jarā-
duḥkhair vimukto'mṛtamaśnute

When the embodied being is able to
transcend these three modes, he can
become free from birth, death, old age
and their distresses and can enjoy
nectar even in this life.

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Those who go beyond the three guṇas, beyond the activity-producing attributes, beyond the root thought patterns and become complete, free of bondages, enjoy bliss in this world.