Verse-21
Chapter 13 — Kshetra Kshetrayagya Vibhag Yoga
Verse 21
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
puruṣaḥ prakrtistho hi bhuńkte prakṛtijängunân
kāraṇaṁ guņasango'sya sadasadyonijanmasu
🕉 English Translation
Jeevatma mil ke maya se hee,
Bane bhokta yeh guno ka tabhi.
Teeno gunon ke hee reh sang mein,
Acchi buri yoniyon mein janam le.
📜 Translation
English
It is the soul seated in nature which becomes the experiencer of the qualities born of nature and attachment to the qualities becomes the reason of it taking birth in good or evil wombs.
The embodied being and the Supreme are not distinct in their very nature, not different but identical. By the title of the embodied being the soul is different! Even if the goal was maintained to be the divine, to develop relation with the divine, to abide in the spirit of the divine, then this distinction would have ended; the bliss of being one with the universal form would have been experienced. But the direction of the being changed, the relationship was established with nature; it got enamoured of the enchantment of illusion (maya); got established in nature resulting in the attachment to the qualities; got involved in the qualities and, therefore, started enjoying them too. The Supreme is without attributes and is the power which is above the attributes; association with it gives the natural experience of the transcendence of qualities. But nature is endowed with qualities; association with nature has limited us to three types of qualities and its result is-whichever quality is predominant at the time of leaving the body, one attains the birth in accordance with it. Predominance of satoguna (quality of purity and knowledge) is the cause of noble birth and if the predominance is of rajoguna (quality of passionate activity) then birth will be in this world and on the predominance of tamoguna (quality of inertia and ignorance) then prohibited action and in place of humanity, beastly tendencies are overpowering, leading to birth in the lower categories of existence! A detailed analysis is done by the Blessed Lord in the 14th chapter; here giving the inspiration for associating with the Lord, the preacher of the Gita Lord Krishna says–