The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 15.6 - Swami Krishnananda.
================================================================ Thursday, 28 Dec 2023 07:20. Chapter 15: The Way and the Goal-6. ================================================================ In the progression of the soul in its aspiration and travel to the Supreme Being, it has to transcend the lower for the sake of the higher. It may appear, for all practical purposes, that we have to rise from tamas to rajas, and from rajas to sattva, though this is not a mathematical movement or a travel along a beaten track. There is a commingling of qualities, and we are not always, entirely, in one state alone. We are not hundred percent tamasika, hundred percent rajasika or hundred percent sattvika ; all these things are present in us always. Yet, there is a tentative need to apply ourselves for the purpose of a routine of practice, which takes the shape of self-transcendence from tamas to rajas, and from rajas to sattva. Those who are tamasika preponderatingly are lethargic, stupid, i...