Day 1 of a two-day Bhagavad Gita Retreat organized by CIRD NA, in Ohio.

In these two days, Nutan Swamiji helps the seekers to understand the Tri-guna model of Bhagavad Gita and guides the seekers in developing their personality by making us understand how to free oneself from the bondages created by the three gunas. A clear understand of this unique concept of Bhagavad Gita helps each and every seeker in the spiritual path.

Date: 28 June 2025
Venue: Genova Community Township hall, 5111 South Old 3C Road, Westerville, Ohio 43082

Swamiji begins the session by speaking about the revolutionary message of the Bhagavad Gita: the goal of meditation (realizing the universal Self) must be made the goal of interactions also by incorporating the soul dimensions in the mind.

To make the seeker’s mind expansive, impersonal, and universal, Bhagavad Gita presents various models. One such model is the tri-guna model; the 14th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita discusses the three gunas--as applied to our personality-- for understanding, analyzing, and improving the human personality.

Sattva, rajas and tamas are the gunas which are an evolute of Prakriti (Nature). Sattva guna leads to understanding, knowledge, and purity. It dissolves preferential clinging and reveals the unity in all the diversity, but it binds through a clinging to knowledge and happiness. Rajo guna leads to colored vision (raga-dvesha), enhances greed, and it binds through clinging to desire-motivated activities and tamo guna leads to ignorance and delusion and it binds through inattention, inertia, and sleep.

To win over tamo guna bondage, the seeker must cultivate more rajo guna. Sattva guna is necessary to overcome tamo guna and rajo guna. Sattva guna can be overcome only by wholesome surrender. A gunatita is one who is free of the bondage of the three gunas.

Shlokas chanted in the Session:
34:41 - यदा यत्कर्तुमायाति तदा तत्कुरुते ऋजुः… Aṣṭāvakra-samhitā: 18.49
41:50- न तदस्ति पृथिव्यां वा दिवि देवेषु वा पुन: ...Bhagavad Gita 18.40
45:25 - सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणा: प्रकृतिसम्भवा:...Bhagavad Gita 14.5
48:46 - तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम्...Bhagavad Gita 14.8
57:08 - रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् ...Bhagavad Gita 14.7
1:00:56 - तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम् ...Bhagavad Gita 14.6
1:07:16 - सर्वभूतेषु येनैकं भावमव्ययमीक्षते...Bhagavad Gita 18.20
1:10:40 - यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम् ...Bhagavad Gita 18.37

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