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Chapter 14 · The Three Modes of Material Nature · 27 verses

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How to study this verse, in six steps

1Remember who is speaking. Kṛṣṇa is speaking. Take the verse as He directs.
2Say the verse and its words. Read the Sanskrit, then each word with its meaning.
3Read the translation as it is. Let the translation say what it says, without adding your own meaning.
4Read the purport. Hear the verse through the disciplic succession.
5Bring your own question. Ask: where does this verse meet my life, my trouble, my doubt?
6Act on it, remembering Kṛṣṇa. Carry one instruction into your work today.

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Krishna’s natureChapter 14 · The Three Modes of Material Nature

14.1 14.3

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 14.2

The Supreme as origin and seed-giving father

Jīva · The soul

इदं ज्ञानमुपाश्रित्य मम साधर्म्यमागता: ।

सर्गेऽपि नोपजायन्ते प्रलये न व्यथन्ति च ॥ २ ॥

idaṁ jñānam upāśritya

mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ

sarge ’pi nopajāyante

pralaye na vyathanti ca

Translation

By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental nature like My own. Thus established, one is not born at the time of creation or disturbed at the time of dissolution.

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Understand it

What this verse is saying, and where it sits in the story.

3 study points

Sharing the Lord’s Spiritual Nature

1
By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one attains a spiritual nature like the Lord’s, without birth at creation or disturbance at dissolution.
2
Prabhupāda explains that liberated souls share the Lord’s spiritual qualities but remain individuals, lovingly serving Him.
3
Develop spiritual qualities to gain this knowledge and become free from the effects of material creation and destruction.

Connected verses · 1

Texts 14.2 & 14.3

After glorifying the knowledge that He is about to reveal, Krishna begins to explain the relationship between material nature, the conditioned living entities and Himself