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    "title": "Discourse 14: The Yoga of the Separation from the Three Qualities (Gunas)",
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    "text": "## Discourse 14: The Yoga of the Separation from the Three Qualities (Gunas)\n\n\nVerse 14:1: The Blessed Lord said: I will again proclaim that supreme Wisdom, of all \nwisdom the best, which having known, all the Sages have gone hence to the supreme \nPerfection. \n\nVerse 14:2: Having taken refuge in this Wisdom and being assimilated to My own nature, \nthey are not re-born even in the emanation of a universe, nor are disquieted in the \ndissolution. \n\nVerse 14:3: My womb is the great Eternal; in that I place the germ; thence cometh the birth \nof all beings, O Bharata. \n\nVerse 14:4: In whatsoever wombs mortals are produced, O Kaunteya, the great Eternal is \ntheir womb, I their generating father. \n\nVerse 14:5: Harmony, Motion, Inertia, such are the qualities, Matter-born; they bind fast in \nthe body, O great-armed one, the indestructible dweller in the body. \n\nVerse 14:6: Of these Harmony, from its stainlessness, luminous and healthy, bindeth by the \nattachment to bliss and the attachment to wisdom, O sinless one. \n\nVerse 14:7: Motion, the passion-nature, know thou, is the source of attachment and thirst for \nlife, O Kaunteya, that bindeth the dweller in the body by the attachment to action. \n\nVerse 14:8: But Inertia, know thou, born of unwisdom, is the deluder of all dwellers in the \nbody; that bindeth by heedlessness, indolence and sloth, O Bharata. \n\nVerse 14:9: Harmony attacheth to bliss, Motion to action, O Bharata. Inertia, verily, having \nshrouded wisdom, attacheth on the contrary to heedlessness. \n\nVerse 14:10: Now Harmony prevaileth, having overpowered Motion and Inertia, O Bharata; \nnow Motion, having overpowered Harmony and Inertia; and now Inertia, having \noverpowered Harmony and Motion. \n\nVerse 14:11: When the wisdom-light streameth forth from all the gates of the body, then it \nmay be known that Harmony is increasing. \n\nVerse 14:12: Greed, outgoing energy, undertaking of actions, restlessness, desire—these are \nborn of the increase of Motion, O best of the Bharatas. \n\nVerse 14:13: Darkness, stagnation and heedlessness and also delusion—these are born of \nthe increase of Inertia, O joy of the Kurus. \n\nVerse 14:14: If Harmony verily prevaileth when the embodied goeth to dissolution, then he \ngoeth forth to the spotless worlds of the great Sages. \n\nVerse 14:15: Having gone to dissolution in Motion, he is born among those attached to \naction; if dissolved in Inertia, he is born in the wombs of the senseless. \n\nVerse 14:16: It is said the fruit of a good action is harmonious and spotless; verily the fruit \nof Motion is pain, and the fruit of Inertia unwisdom. \n\nVerse 14:17: From Harmony wisdom is born, and also greed from Motion; heedlessness and \ndelusion are of Inertia and also unwisdom. \n\nVerse 14:18: They rise upwards who are settled in Harmony; the Active dwell in the mid- \nmost place: the Inert go downwards, enveloped in the vilest qualities. \n\nVerse 14:19: When the Seer perceiveth no agent other than the qualities, and knoweth That \nwhich is higher than the qualities, he entereth into My Nature. \n\nVerse 14:20: When the dweller in the body hath crossed over these three qualities, whence \nall bodies have been produced, liberated from birth, death, old age and sorrow, he drinketh \nthe nectar of immortality. \n\nVerse 14:21: Arjuna said: What are the marks of him who hath crossed over the three \nqualities, O Lord? How acteth he, and how doth he go beyond these three qualities? \n\nVerse 14:22: The Blessed Lord said: He, O Pandava, who hateth not radiance, nor outgoing \nenergy, nor even delusion, when present, nor longeth after them, absent; \n\nVerse 14:23: He who, seated as a neutral, is unshaken by the qualities; who saying, \"The \nqualities revolve,\" standeth apart immovable, \n\nVerse 14:24: Balanced in pleasure and pain, self-reliant, to whom a lump of earth, a rock \nand gold are alike, the same to loved and unloved, firm, the same in censure and in praise, \nVerse 14:25: The same in honour and ignominy, the same to friend and foe, abandoning all \nundertakings—he is said to have crossed over the qualities. \n\nVerse 14:26: And he who serveth Me exclusively by the Yoga of devotion, he, crossing \nbeyond the qualities, he is fit to become the Eternal. \n\nVerse 14:27: For I am the abode of the Eternal, and of the indestructible nectar of \nimmortality, of immemorial righteousness, and of unending bliss.",
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