Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization: Verse 12
ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये ।
मत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि न त्वहं तेषु ते मयि ॥
ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā
rājasās-tāmasāśca ye
matta eveti tān-viddhi
na tv-ahaṃ teṣu te mayi – 7.12
Whatever features or expressions sattva (goodness and purity), rajas (activity and passion) or tamas (ignorance and inertia) arouse, know them all as having emerged from Me alone. However, I am not in them; they are in Me.
Chapter 7: Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga – Knowledge and its Actualization - Verse 12
Ma Gurupriya
Creation is complex. To make it full and complete, it must embody good and bad, noble and ignoble. It will not be right to say that Krishna, the Soul, represents only the good and noble. So, he comes out with the absolute statement that all sāttvika, rājasa and tāmasa notes emerge from him alone. Good, bad and indifferent, all are he.
World is made of plural things. Though all are in him, he is not in any, so much so that he is not involved in whatever happens to, in and by each. It is like the dream springing from the sleeper’s within. He is not in the dreamt phenomena.
As dream breaks, the mind remains itself, untouched by all it displayed. Indeed, creation is such a dream-display. Though intriguing, this is the fact.
