Lecture series by Nutan Swamiji during Delhi Sadhana Shibiram 2025.
Date: 17 September 2025
Venue: CIRD, Delhi

In this Satsang, Swamiji discusses the Gunatraya (three-guna) model of the Bhagavad Gita, which is a complete and effective framework for understanding creation and our own personality. The whole creation is expressed in terms of the three gunas—Sattva, rajas and tamas. Prakriti is made of the three gunas. Bhagavad Gita discusses the three gunas in the relation to our personality.

In this created universe, there cannot be anything existing which is not a combination of the three gunas. Sattva guna represents knowledge, light, revelation. Rajo guna represents activity. Tamo guna represents inertia. All the three gunas create bondage for the human being, when one identifies with them. Sattva guna binds by sukha sanga and jnana sanga; rajo guna binds by clinging to desire-motivated activities; tamo guna binds people by inattention, laziness and sleep.

Tamo guna bondage can be overcome by cultivating rajo guna and sattva guna; rajo guna bondage can be overcome by cultivation of Sattva guna. The Sattva guna bondage can be overcome only by Avyabhicharini Bhakti (unswerving devotion), and surrender (non-expectation). By becoming free of the bondage of the gunas, one gets rid of smallness and becomes universal.

Shlokas chanted in the Satsang:
0:00 - Introduction
5:05 - न तदस्ति पृथिव्यां वा दिवि देवेषु वा पुन: … Bhagavad Gita 18.40
8:42 - स्थितप्रज्ञस्य का भाषा समाधिस्थस्य केशव ...Bhagavad Gita 2.54
16:22 - सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणा: प्रकृतिसम्भवा:… Bhagavad Gita 14.5
19:42 - तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम्… Bhagavad Gita 14.6
25:32 - यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम्… Bhagavad Gita 18.37
29:01 - सर्वभूतेषु येनैकं भावमव्ययमीक्षते... Bhagavad Gita 18.20
35:45 - रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम्... Bhagavad Gita 14.7
38:38 - तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम्... Bhagavad Gita 14.8
56:52 - मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते... Bhagavad Gita 14.26
1:02:50 - नि:सङ्गो मां भजेद् विद्वानप्रमत्तो जितेन्द्रिय:... Srimad Bhagavatam 11.25.34
1:03:31 - सत्त्वं चाभिजयेद् युक्तो नैरपेक्ष्येण शान्तधी:... Srimad Bhagavatam 11.25.35
1:06:43 - निरपेक्षं मुनिं शान्तं निर्वैरं समदर्शनम् ... Srimad Bhagavatam 11.14.16

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