
Session 04 of Nutan Swamiji during the Bhagavad Gita Retreat oragnised by CIRDNA during USA Jnana Yajna 2025. In this session, Swamiji explains the state of freedom from the bondage of the three gunas—sattva, rajas, and tamas.


Examples of Gunas from Srimad Bhagavatam
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Gunas and the State of Zeroness
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Detect Laziness in Oneself
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The Universe is Constituted by the Three Gunas
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Understand Gunas to know the Mind
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Be Unaffected by the Impact of the Gunas.
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By making the preliminary offering to the five prāṇas and Brahman before one takes his food every time, the entire food intake becomes ‘Yajña-śiṣṭa,’ All that one eats becomes a prasada (food blessed by Yajña). Such a prasada, says Krishna, will lift the partaker to the eternal Brahman.
Read MoreActivities of every one, viewed fundamentally, spring from the same source. Grand Nature, a compound of sattva, rajas and tamas, gives rise to abundant plural...
Read MoreThe renunciation Krishna enjoins is not at all gross or external. It is only in the mind and intelligence, effected by themselves. Consider all activities as offering to the Teacher. Once all actions stand offered to the Teacher, what can survive to cause ownership or possessiveness? Through renunciation or offering, the whole actions get away from the actor, the one who does them.
Read MoreTrue seeker should be given to self-restraint, self-regulation and self-harmony. Mind should be under the sovereign, sublime guidance of intelligence. Intelligence should relentlessly reflect upon the blissful Self. This kind of inner attunement and steadfastness in it, makes one verily an Ātmavān.
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