Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga

7.12

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Sanskrit · Devanagari

ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये। मत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि न त्वहं तेषु ते मयि ॥

Sanskrit · IAST

ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasāstāmasāśca ye matta eveti tānviddhi na tvahaṃ teṣu te mayi

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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882
know that they are indeed

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Commentary · Sanskrit

Śaṅkarācārya

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।।7.12।। ये चैव सात्त्विकाः सत्त्वनिर्वृत्ताः भावाः पदार्थाः राजसाः रजोनिर्वृत्ताः तामसाः तमोनिर्वृत्ताश्च ये केचित् प्राणिनां स्वकर्मवशात् जायन्ते भावाः तान् मत्त एव जायमानान् इति एवं विद्धि सर्वान् समस्तानेव। यद्यपि ते मत्तः जायन्ते तथापि न तु अहं तेषु तदधीनः तद्वशः यथा संसारिणः। ते पुनः मयि मद्वशाः मदधीनाः।।एवंभूतमपि परमेश्वरं नित्यशुद्धबुद्धमुक्तस्वभावं सर्वभूतात्मानं निर्गुणं संसारदोषबीजप्रदाहकारणं मां नाभिजानाति जगत् इति अनुक्रोशं दर्शयति भगवान्। त़च्च किंनिमित्तं जगतः अज्ञानमित्युच्यते

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Translation · English

Rāmānuja

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7.12 Why should this be declared with particular illustrations? The reason is as follows: Whatever entities exist in the world partaking of the alities of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas in the forms of bodies, senses, objects of enjoyment and their causes - know them all to have originated from Me alone, and they abide in Me alone, as they constitute My body. 'But I am not in them.' That is, I do not depend for My existence on them at any time. In the case of other beings, though the body depends for its existence on the self, the body serves some purpose of the self in the matter of Its sustenance. To Me, however, there is no purpose at all of that kind served by them constituting My body. The meaning is that they merely serve the purpose of My sport.

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Commentary · English

Swami Sivananda

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7.12 ये whatever? च and? एव even? सात्त्विकाः pure? भावाः natures? राजसाः active? तामसाः inert? च and? ये whatever? मत्तः from Me? एव even? इति thus? तान् them? विद्धि know? न not? तु indeed? अहम् I? तेषु in them? ते they? मयि in Me.Commentary This is a world of the three Gunas? viz.? Sattva (purity)? Rajas (passion) and Tamas (inertia). All sentient and insentient objects are the aggregate of these three alities of Nature. One ality predominates in them and the predominant ality imparts to the object its distinctive character or definite properties.In the gods? sages milk and green gram? Sattva is predominant. In Gandharvas (a class of celestials)? kings? warriors and chillies? Rajas is predominant. In demons? Sudras? garlic? onion and meat? Tamas is predominant.Though these beings and objects proceed from Me? I am not in them they are in Me. I am independent. I am the support for them they depend on Me just as the superimposed snake depends on the rope. The snake is in the rope? but the rope is never in the snake. The waves belong to the ocean but the ocean does not belong to the waves. (Cf.IX.4and6)

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