Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 5 - Swami Krishnananda
==================================================================== ====================================================================== Friday, November 26, 2021. 8:00.PM Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : Discourse 40 The Thirteenth Chapter Concludes – Understanding Purusha and Prakriti POST-5. ==================================================================== Puruṣaḥ prakṛtistho hi bhuṅkte prakṛtijān guṇān, kāraṇaṁ guṇasaṅgo’sya: The reason for this so-called enjoyment and suffering of the purusha is its contact with the gunas of prakriti—sattva, rajas, tamas. And, as I mentioned, the threefold contact brings about a threefold experience: pleasurable, unpleasurable or static. Because of repeated contact and getting habituated to this kind of contact with sattva, rajas and tamas, the purusha—as it were, indescribably though— forgets its original universality, and develops a tendency to get involved in the fulfilment of its own limited desires, the limitation being caused by t...