164. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14, Verse 6 I Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Taught by Swami Sarvapriyananda, this episode is part of a series of talks that unfold the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of the Bhagavad Gita, "The Song of God".
In this episode, Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches chapter 14, verse 6 of the Bhagavad Gita.
Chapter 14 is devoted to an understanding of the Gunatreya Vibhaga Yoga, or the three qualities/components of Maya. The entire universe is created by a projection of the three gunas - satva, rajas, and tamas. Understanding the science of the three gunas and how we can apply it to our lives is the focus of Chapter 14. Verse 6 addresses the satva component of Maya. Swami Sarvapriyananda explains this in this episode.
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Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 14, Verse 6 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम् |
सुखसङ्गेन बध्नाति ज्ञानसङ्गेन चानघ || 6||
tatra sattvaṁ nirmalatvāt prakāśhakam anāmayam
sukha-saṅgena badhnāti jñāna-saṅgena chānagha
⧫ Of these, Satva, on account of its stainlessness, is luminous and free from evil. Oh sinless one [Arjuna], it binds the embodied self by attachment to happiness and, by attachment to knowledge.
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| 0:00.0 | Ome, Vasudeva, Sutam, Devam, Kamsachanuram Ardhanum, |
| 0:13.0 | Devaki, Paramanandam, Krishna, Vand, one day, Jagad Guru. |
| 0:25.6 | So this is our Bhagavad Gita class, |
| 0:28.6 | which we have been playing delinquent for quite some time now. |
| 0:32.6 | I've been traveling and missed out a number of classes |
| 0:35.6 | and we got a lot of mail for it also, saying please can we have those classes back again or could you complete the Bhagavad Gita that's going to take some time we are on the 14th chapter and we had started the 14th chapter before I went off on various travels. |
| 0:59.0 | So we have read the first five verses of the 14th chapter. |
| 1:04.0 | The 14th chapter is called Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga. |
| 1:09.0 | It's a science of the gunas. |
| 1:12.6 | And what are the gunas? |
| 1:13.6 | It's something that you come across all the time |
| 1:16.6 | when you're studying Vedantam. |
| 1:18.6 | The sattva, Rajas and tamas, |
| 1:23.6 | often translated as qualities, |
| 1:26.6 | characteristics, actually technical often translated as qualities, characteristics. |
| 1:30.3 | Actually, technically, these are components of Maya, of Prakriti. |
| 1:36.3 | They are more like, one of the older descriptions is, |
| 1:40.3 | in a rope you have these fibers or threads they are intertwined and then you |
| 1:46.0 | make a rope like braids in a rope like that these are the three which are |
| 1:51.5 | intertwined think of about the double helix structure of the DNA or something |
| 1:58.7 | like that or just a just a thread which has these fine strings inside it. |
| 2:07.6 | So these three are components of Maya according to Vedantam. |
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