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Bhagavad-gītā 18.19
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 19
- ज्ञानं कर्म च कर्ताच त्रिधैव गुणभेदतः ।
- प्रोच्यते गुणसङ्ख्याने यथावच्छृणु तान्यपि ॥१९॥
- jñānaṁ karma ca kartā ca
- tridhaiva guṇa-bhedataḥ
- procyate guṇa-saṅkhyāne
- yathāvac chṛṇu tāny api
jñānamknowledge — knowledge; karmawork — work; caalso — also; kartāworker — worker; caalso — also; tridhāof three kinds — of three kinds; evacertainly — certainly; guṇain terms of different modes of material nature-bhedataḥin terms of different modes of material nature — in terms of different modes of material nature; procyateare said — are said; guṇain terms of different modes-saṅkhyānein terms of different modes — in terms of different modes; yathāas they are-vatas they are — as they are; śṛṇuhear — hear; tāniall of them — all of them; apialso — also.
According to the three different modes of material nature, there are three kinds of knowledge, action and performer of action. Now hear of them from Me.
In the Fourteenth Chapter the three divisions of the modes of material nature were elaborately described. In that chapter it was said that the mode of goodness is illuminating, the mode of passion materialistic, and the mode of ignorance conducive to laziness and indolence. All the modes of material nature are binding; they are not sources of liberation. Even in the mode of goodness one is conditioned. In the Seventeenth Chapter, the different types of worship by different types of men in different modes of material nature were described. In this verse, the Lord says that He wishes to speak about the different types of knowledge, workers and work itself according to the three material modes.