Thirteenth Chapter
In this world there is only that One Divinity (Paramatma tattva) that is worth knowing. One must surely know That. Knowing That in essence, the knower becomes inseparable from That Divinity (Paramatma tattva). By knowing that God, one attains immortality. That God’s hands, feet, head, eyes, ears are everywhere. Though being devoid of all the senses, He is the illuminator of all objects; though being devoid of all qualities and attributes, He is the occupier of all the qualities; and though being free of any affection and attachment, He is the provider and nourisher of all. He is outside all the beings, and also within, and also it is Him only in the form of all movable and immovable creatures. Though remaining separate from all beings, he is inseparable (without any division). He is the illuminator of all knowledge. He remains evenly and proportionately among all the disproportionate beings, amongst all the movable beings, he remains free of any movement. Among all the perishable and destructible beings, He remains imperishable and eternal. In this manner, on genuinely knowing God, one realizes God.
Fourteenth Chapter
This entire world is made of the three modes of Nature. To be beyond these, one must surely know the the modes and their tendencies. The three modes, Goodness, Passion and Ignorance, that are born of Nature causing attachment and sense of mine (mamta) etc. in the body and the world, bind a man (jivaatma). Mode of Goodness (Sattva guna) through attachment to pleasure and knowledge, Mode of Passion (Rajo guna), through attachment to activity and Mode of Ignorance (Tamo guna), through negligence, laziness, and sleep, causes man to be bonded. When mode of Goodness increases, by suppressing Mode of Passion and Mode of Ignorance, then illumination takes places in the mind-intellect, tendencies opposing activity and ignorance. When the Mode of Activity increases, by suppressing Mode of Purity and Mode of Ignorance, then greed, activity etc., tendencies opposing purity and ignorance, increases in the mind-intellect instrument. When the Mode of Ignorance increases, by suppressing the Mode of Purity and Mode of Activity, then there is lack of discrimination, lack of interest in doing work, indolence, delusion, etc. tendencies that are opposing purity and activity, increases in the mind-intellect instrument. When the tendencies of the modes of nature increase, the dying being, successively goes to upper, middle or lower regions (loks). But he who does not regard anything other than the modes to be the doer, in other words, he who realizes that all activities are taking place in the modes, not in the self, such a one goes beyond the modes, and attains godliness (भगवभाव). A man can rise beyond the modes of Nature, also through exclusive devotion.
‒ From the book in Hindi ‘Gita Darpan’ by Swami Ramsukhdasji Maharaj
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