168. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 14 Verse 21-22 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

So the Bhagavad Gita, fourteenth chapter, guṇa-trayavibhāga yoga, the yoga of the, the discernment of the three gunas.

And we have seen, um, how this analysis of the three gunas wonderfully describes human nature.

What we are, how we think, how we feel, how we behave.

These three gunas, sattva, rajas, and tamas, they sort of comprehensively describe our nature.

And then Krishna says, the central teaching, the point of talking about all of this...

Of course, this, um, knowledge about the three gunas is a great thing to know.

Uh, if we can understand why we feel the way we do, why we think and behave in the way we do, how we keep changing.

It's all gunas.

But that was not the central message.

The central message is that's not who or what we really are.

The spirit, the atman, consciousness, our real nature, who we are, is different from the gunas, gunas.

Is distinct from the gunas.

And that's what he says in this verse number 19, which we did last time.

It's the most important verse of the... or most important teaching of this chapter.

And it's a teaching that Krishna has given at least twice earlier.

You've seen in the, uh, third chapter, the 13th chapter.

Same thing, more or less same language he has used.

Uh, what was that verse? nānyaḿ guṇebhya kartāraḿ yadā draṣhṭānupashyati guṇebhyaścha paraḿ vetti mad-bhāvam so'dhigacchati.

When you see that it is the gunas which are doing everything, and you are the witness to it.