Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 50-1. - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================== ======================================================================== Monday, September 26, 2022. 06:30. Discourse 50: The Eighteenth Chapter Continues – Knowing One's Duty-1. ======================================================================== The Bhagavadgita has been telling us varieties of things in terms of the three gunas—what is sattvic, what is rajasic and what is tamasic. Nothing on earth or in heaven can be said to be free from the operation of the three gunas. Not even the gods are free from the action of gunas on them. brāhmaṇakṣatriyaviśāṁ śūdrāṇāṁ ca paraṁtapa karmāṇi pravibhaktāni svabhāvaprabhavair guṇaiḥ (18.41) śamo damas tapaḥ śaucaṁ kṣāntir ārjavam eva ca jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahmakarma svabhāvajam (18.42) śauryaṁ tejo dhṛtir dākṣyaṁ yuddhe cāpyapalāyanam dānam īśvarabhāvaś ca kṣātraṁ karma svabhāvajam (18.43) kṛṣigaurakṣyavāṇijyaṁ vaiśyakarma svabhāvajam paricaryātmakaṁ ...