Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 14- Swami Krishnananda.
================================================== ================================================== Tuesday, January 11, 2022. 10:00.PM Discourse 41 The Fourteenth Chapter: Rising Above the Three Gunas POST-14. ================================================== Tatra sattvaṁ nirmalatvāt prakāśakam anāmayam, sukhasaṅgena badhnāti jñānasaṅgena cānagha (14.6): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If, by chance, the sattva guna preponderates in a person and the qualities of rajas and tamas are subjugated and suppressed, then what happens? Because of the purity, the transparency and the perspicuity of the sattva guna, it shines like a mirror. Immediately we feel happy. Whenever we are happy, for any reason whatsoever, it is because at that moment rajas has been suppressed by the rise of sattva. But we cannot be happy always, because then rajas immediately rises up into action and suppresses sattva, and after a mood of happiness and elati...