So,

Vasudeva Sutam, Devam

Kham Sachanurramarthanam

Devaki Paramanandam

Krishna Vandeghavad Gurum

So the Bhagavad Ghiya Ghiata

14th chapter

Gunatraibhavaga yoga, the yoga of the discernment of the three guna's.

And we have seen how this analysis of the three guanas wonderfully describes human nature.

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

These three guna, sattva Rajas and Tamas, they sort of comprehensively describe our nature. And then, says the central teaching, the point of talking about all of this.

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

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 goodness.

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 goodness, is distinct from the goodness.

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

which is 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. We have seen in the third chapter, the 13th chapter, same thing, more or less same language he has used. What was that verse? Nanyam guenebhbhya kattaram Yada-drshyathe, Gunebhhya-Param-Vyatjjit, madhavam so-hdi-gachy. When you see that, it is the gunebhbhya'stya param-vete, madhvavam sohdi-gachy. When you see that, it is the gunas which are doing everything and you are the witness to it.

Witness in the sense, not as somebody sitting and watching like from your window, no, as the awareness or the consciousness which is experiencing everything.

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