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Bhagavad-gītā 7.12
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 12
- ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये ।
- मत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि न त्वहं तेषु ते मयि ॥१२॥
- ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā
- rājasās tāmasāś ca ye
- matta eveti tān viddhi
- na tv ahaṁ teṣu te mayi
yeall which — all which; caand — and; evacertainly — certainly; sāttvikāḥin goodness — in goodness; bhāvāḥstates of being — states of being; rājasāḥin the mode of passion — in the mode of passion; tāmasāḥin the mode of ignorance — in the mode of ignorance; caalso — also; yeall which — all which; mattaḥfrom Me — from Me; evacertainly — certainly; itithus — thus; tānthose — those; viddhitry to know — try to know; nanot — not; tubut — but; ahamI — I; teṣuin them — in them; tethey — they; mayiin Me — in Me.
Know that all states of being—be they of goodness, passion or ignorance—are manifested by My energy. I am, in one sense, everything, but I am independent. I am not under the modes of material nature, for they, on the contrary, are within Me.
All material activities in the world are being conducted under the three modes of material nature. Although these material modes of nature are emanations from the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, He is not subject to them. For instance, under the state laws one may be punished, but the king, the lawmaker, is not subject to that law. Similarly, all the modes of material nature—goodness, passion and ignorance—are emanations from the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, but Kṛṣṇa is not subject to material nature. Therefore He is nirguṇa, which means that these guṇas, or modes, although issuing from Him, do not affect Him. That is one of the special characteristics of Bhagavān, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead.