Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7

POWERFUL COGNITION

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The interplay of the three guṇas (modes) creates the functioning of the mind and through the operation of the mind, activity. Kṛṣṇa has transcended the three guṇas.

दैवी ह्येषा गुणमयी मम माया दुरत्यया ।
मामेव ये प्रपद्यन्ते मायामेतां तरन्ति ते
॥ ७-१४ ॥

daivī hyeṣā guṇamayī mama māyā
duratyayā māmeva ye prapadyante
māyāmetām taranti te

My Divine energy, consisting of the
three modes of material nature, is
difficult to overcome. But those who
surrender unto Me can cross beyond
it with ease.

Portrait illustration of Paramashivam / Krishna

POWERFUL COGNITION

replace powerful cognition by: When one transcends the guṇas, as Kṛṣṇa says about Himself, one becomes a triguṇa rahita, one who has transcended the three guṇas. Such a person is no longer influenced by the mind and its actions.

न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढाः प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमाः ।
माययापहृतज्ञाना आसुरं भावमाश्रिताः
॥ ७-१५॥

na mām duṣkṛ tino mūḍhāḥ
prapadyante narādhamāḥ
māyayāpahṛtajñānā āsuram
bhāvamāśritāḥ

Those miscreants who are foolish,
lowest among mankind, whose
knowledge is stolen by māyā,
illusion, and who have taken shelter
in demonic nature, do not surrender
unto Me.

POWERFUL COGNITION

Even an energy source that has transcended the three guṇas needs to have some satva guṇa infused in it to be born into this planet

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