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Part XIV: The Three Gunas or Qualities.1473
Part XIV: The Three Gunas or Qualities.
Then spake unto Arjuna, the Prince of the Pandus, Krishna, the Blessed
Lord, saying:
“Draw near, Arjuna, and I will further inform you in the Supreme Wisdom—
that Wisdom of all Wisdom the best—that Wisdom by which the Wise
Ones mounted unto the heights of Supreme Attainment and perfection.
And, such, having become blended into Me, by reason of this Wisdom, they
are not again reborn, even in the creation of a new universe at the beginning
of a Day of Brahm, nor are they blotted out upon the dissolution of the
universe, at the beginning of a Night of Brahm.
“Know thou, Arjuna, that Nature is the Great Womb in which I place my
seed—from this proceedeth all natural forms, shapes, things, and objects.
Nature is the Great Womb of all those things which are conceived in the
natural womb, and I am the Father whose Seed is within the seed of all
natural things.
“The three great Gunas, or Principles of Nature, oft times called the
Three Qualities, and which are inherent in, and which spring from Nature,
are known by these names, O Prince; Sattvas, or Truth; Rajas, or Passion;
and Tamas, or Indifference—these be the Three. And each, and all, tend
to bind the Soul within the Body—the Universal Soul within Nature. As