Gita Acharan

K rishna says, “Three gunas of satva , rajas and tamas bind Imperishable Dweller (14.5). Of these, the stainless satva binds through attachment to happiness and knowledge (14.6). Know rajas to be raagaatmak (nature of passion) giving birth to desires and it binds the embodied soul through attachment to action (14.7). Know that tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds through heedlessness, laziness and sleep” (14.8). Essentially, the three gunas (characteristics born of prakriti ) are responsible for binding the atma which is the beej (seed) of Paramatma to the physical body. Krishna further says, “ Satva attaches to happiness, rajas to action while tamas indeed, having veiled knowledge, attaches to heedlessness (14.9). Sometimes satva is predominant, overpowering rajas and tamas ; sometimes rajas over satva and tamas ; and sometimes tamas over satva and rajas ” (14.10). This implies that we are under the spell of the combina...