The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

╭ chapter fourteen
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The fruit of good deeds is pure and sattvic.
The fruit of rajas is suffering. The fruit of
tamas is ignorance and insensitivity.
17
From sattva comes understanding; from
rajas, greed. But the outcome of tamas is
confusion, infatuation, and ignorance.
18
Those who live in sattva go upwards; those
in rajas remain where they are. But those
immersed in tamas sink downwards.
19
The wise see clearly that all action is the work
of the gunas. Knowing that which is above
the gunas, they enter into union with me.
20
Going beyond the three gunas which form the
body, they leave behind the cycle of birth and death,
decrepitude and sorrow, and attain to immortality.
arjuna
21
What are the characteristics of those who have
gone beyond the gunas, O Lord? How do they act?
How have they passed beyond the gunas’ hold?
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