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Session 03 of Nutan Swamiji during the Bhagavad Gita Retreat oragnised by CIRDNA during USA Jnana Yajna 2025.

Date: 14 June 2025
Venue: Fairfield Inn 15011, Newport Ave, Tustin CA 92780

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In this Satsang, Nutan Swamiji emphasizes that a seeker must understand the three gunas, their bondage, and strive to transcend them. Tamo guna, the quality of inertia and ignorance, can be overcome by cultivating rajo guna (activity) and sattva guna (purity). Rajo guna, characterized by desireful activity, can be overcome by strengthening sattva.

The Transcendental Truth is beyond the effect of the three gunas. Normally, the sense organs have attraction and repulsion towards world objects and situations. Following that the mind becomes polluted and following that the intelligence comes under the clutch of worldliness. This slavery to the world can be overcome when the intelligence gets established in the Self. Knowledge the Atma, one can transcend the bondage of the three gunas.

Sri Krishna cautions that even sattva guna binds through attachment to knowledge and happiness (sukha-saṅga and jñāna-saṅga). Srimad Bhagavatam declares that the only way to overcome sattva guna is through surrender—unswerving bhakti and non-expectation (nirapekṣa). By surrendering completely to the Divine, the seeker becomes triguṇātīta—transcending the gunas. Anchored in the Self, he realizes his universal identity with Brahman, attaining supreme freedom and peace.

Shlokas Chanted in the Satsang:
3:45 - नान्यं गुणेभ्य: कर्तारं यदा …. Bhagavad Gita 14.19
10:15 - त्रैगुण्यविषया वेदा निस्त्रैगुण्यो भवार्जुन ... Bhagavad Gita 2.45
10:35 - प्रकृते: क्रियमाणानि गुणै: कर्माणि सर्वश: ... Bhagavad Gita 3.27
16:18 - इन्द्रियाणि पराण्याहुरिन्द्रियेभ्य: परं मन: ... Bhagavad Gita 3.42
24:02 - एवं बुद्धे: परं बुद्ध्वा संस्तभ्यात्मानमात्मना ...Bhagavad Gita 3.43
38:03 - रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन् ...Bhagavad Gita 2.64
39:56 - मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते ..Bhagavad Gita 14.26
49:03 - नि:सङ्गो मां भजेद् विद्वानप्रमत्तो जितेन्द्रिय: ...Srimad Bhagavatam 11.25.34
51:07 - सर्वद्वारेषु देहेऽस्मिन्प्रकाश उपजायते... Bhagavad Gita 14.11
53:55 - सत्त्वं चाभिजयेद् युक्तो नैरपेक्ष्येण शान्तधी: ...Srimad Bhagavatam 11.25.35
59:54 – Does the feeling of doership dissolve when you surrender?
1:03:19 – How can a thoughtless mind can connect with the Consciousness?
1:15:41 – How best to deal with physical pain?

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