Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14…Three Gunas, by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood
Of sattva, knowledge is born:
Of rajas, greed:
Tamas brings forth bewilderment,
Delusion, darkness
Abiding in sattva
Man goes to higher realms:
Remaining in rajas
In this world he remains:
Sunk in tamas,
His lower nature,
He sinks to the underworld.
Let the wise man know
These gunas alone as the doers
Of every action
Let him learn to know That
Which is beyond them, also:
Thus he will reach my oneness
When the dweller in the body
Has overcome the gunas
That causes this body,
Then he is made free
From birth and death
From pain and decay
He becomes immortal
