Yoga through Understanding the Three Modes of Material Nature

Shloka 14.5

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BHAGAVAD GITA · 14.5

सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसम्भवाः | निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम् ||१४-५||

Transliteration · pronunciation guide

sattvaṃ rajastama iti guṇāḥ prakṛtisambhavāḥ . nibadhnanti mahābāho dehe dehinamavyayam ||14-5||

English translation

14.5 Purity, passion and inertia these alities, O Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the body, the embodied, the indestructible.

Translation: Swami Sivananda · Sources & context

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