Abara Parama Jnana Baliba Tomare

The Blessed Lord said: Again I shall declare to you this supreme wisdom, the
best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have attained the supreme
perfection.

By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental
nature, which is like My own nature. Thus established, one is not born at the
time of creation nor disturbed at the time of dissolution.

The total material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, and it is
that Brahman that I impregnate, making possible the births of all living
beings, O son of Bharata.

It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kunti, are made
possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving
father.

Material nature consists of the three modes--goodness, passion and ignorance.
When the living entity comes in contact with nature, he becomes conditioned by
these modes.

O sinless one, the mode of goodness being purer than the others, is
illuminating, and it frees one from all sinful reactions. Those situated in
that mode develop knowledge, but they become conditioned by the concept of
happiness.

The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kunti,
and because of this one is bound to material fruitive activities.

O son of Bharata, the mode of ignorance causes the delusion of all living
entities. The result of this mode is madness, indolence and sleep, which bind
the conditioned soul.

The mode of goodness conditions one to happiness, passion conditions him to the
fruits of action, and ignorance to madness.

Sometimes the mode of passion becomes prominent, defeating the mode of
goodness, O son of Bharata. And sometimes the mode of goodness defeats passion,
and at other times the mode of ignorance defeats goodness and passion. In this
way there is always competition for supremacy.

The manifestations of the mode of goodness can be experienced when all the gates
of the body are illuminated by knowledge.

O chief of the Bharatas, when there is an increase in the mode of passion, the
symptoms of great attachment, uncontrollable desire, hankering, and intense
endeavor develop.

O son of Kuru, when there is an increase in the mode of ignorance, madness,
illusion, inertia and darkness are manifested.

When one dies in the mode of goodness, he attains to the pure higher planets.

When one dies in the mode of passion, he takes birth among those engaged in
fruitive activities; and when he dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth
in the animal kingdom.

By acting in the mode of goodness, one becomes purified. Works done in the mode
of passion result in distress, and actions performed in the mode of ignorance
result in foolishness.

From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion,
greed develops; and from the mode of ignorance, foolishness, madness and
illusion develop.

Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher
planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in
the mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds.

When you see that there is nothing beyond these modes of nature in all activities
and that the Supreme Lord is transcendental to all these modes, then you can
know My spiritual nature.

When the embodied being is able to transcend these three modes, he can become
free from birth, death, old age and their distresses and can enjoy nectar even
in this life.

Arjuna inquired: O my Lord, by what symptoms is one known who is transcendental
to those modes? What is his behavior? And how does he transcend the modes of
nature?

The Blessed Lord said: He who does not hate illumination, attachment and
delusion when they are present, nor longs for them when they disappear; who is
seated like one unconcerned, being situated beyond these material reactions of
the modes of nature, who remains firm, knowing that the modes alone are active;
who regards alike pleasure and pain, and looks on a clod, a stone and a piece
of gold with an equal eye; who is wise and holds praise and blame to be the
same; who is unchanged in honor and dishonor, who treats friend and foe alike,
who has abandoned all fruitive undertakings--such a man is said to have
transcended the modes of nature.

One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any
circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to
the level of Brahman.

And I am the basis of the impersonal Brahman, which is the constitutional
position of ultimate happiness, and which is immortal, imperishable and
eternal.

Thus Bhaktivedanta sings the song of Sri Gita, with the hope that hearing this,
Krsna conscious pure devotees will be pleased.