170. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 14, Verses 26-27 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches verses 26-27 from the fourteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks by Swami Sarvapriyananda on the Bhagavad Gita, 'the Song of God,' unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta.
Chapter 14 is devoted to understanding the Gunatreya Vibhaga Yoga, or the three qualities/components (gunas) of Maya. Swami Sarvapriyananda explains that, other than the Atma, everything in nature is the play of the three gunas. This insight, and transcending the play of the three gunas, is the doorway to infinity.
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Chapter 14, verse 26
मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते |
स गुणान्समतीत्यैतान्ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते || 26||
māṁ cha yo ’vyabhichāreṇa bhakti-yogena sevate
sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
⧫ He who serves me alone through the unswerving yoga of devotion transcends the three gunas and becomes fit for the state of Brahman.
Chapter 14, verse 27
ब्रह्मणो हि प्रतिष्ठाहममृतस्याव्ययस्य च |
शाश्वतस्य च धर्मस्य सुखस्यैकान्तिकस्य च || 27||
brahmaṇo hi pratiṣhṭhāham amṛitasyāvyayasya cha
śhāśhvatasya cha dharmasya sukhasyaikāntikasya cha
⧫ For I am the embodiment of Brahman of immutable immortality, of the eternal religion, and absolute bliss
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| 0:00.0 | Vasudeva Sutam Devam, |
| 0:04.0 | Kamsachanuram Ardanam |
| 0:08.0 | Devaki, Paramanandam, |
| 0:12.0 | Krishna, Vande, Jagad Gurum. |
| 0:17.0 | Good. This bitter cold also that reminds me there was a program scheduled |
| 0:28.7 | for tomorrow in the Hindu temple Toronto so just in case some were planning |
| 0:35.5 | to go just know that it's not there tomorrow. |
| 0:39.3 | All right, Gunatra Vibhagra Yoga, the yoga of the discernment of the three Gunas. |
| 0:48.3 | In this chapter, Krishna teaches Adjuna, this wonderful science of the gunas. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm thinking this chapter, there are three wonderful points of inflection, or three highlights. |
| 1:02.0 | The first is of course the description of the three guneas, this science of the gunas. |
| 1:06.0 | That's the first amazing thing about this chapter. |
| 1:09.0 | Satwa Rajas and Tamas. |
| 1:11.6 | Everything in the universe, whatever we experience, whatever is going on in the world and in our bodies, |
| 1:16.6 | in our minds, in our lives, everything is described as an activity of the three-gooners. |
| 1:22.6 | Everything can be quite well described. |
| 1:24.6 | In fact, it's such a wonderful science it just very nicely describes especially ourselves why we are the way we are |
| 1:33.5 | where we behave way we think we feel enjoy suffer why our lives go the way they |
| 1:39.0 | are going all of these can be quite well explained with the help of the three |
| 1:43.0 | gunaes sattva raja and thamas so that was the help of the three gunas, Satua Raja and Tamas. |
| 1:45.0 | So that is the first thing. |
| 1:47.0 | And remember it is meant to be applied to oneself, not to others, not to judge others. |
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