BGV 14

Gita 14.27 Brahman refers not just to the impersonal spiritual but also the generically spiritual

Gita 14.26 Health is a product of medication but it is also a precondition for medication

Gita 14.25 As long as we are materially motivated, we will be materially agitated

Gita 14.24 To be equipoised, be situated in the self, not in the world

Gita 14.23 We are not our scars, be they physical or emotional

Gita 14.22 Be a non-judgemental non-committal observer of your emotions

Gita 14.21 When the disease is subtle, we need education to perceive the symptoms of sickness and health

Gita 14.20 Those who transcend the modes transcend miseries

Gita 14.19 Seeing that our actions are impelled by the modes inspires us to resist the desires induced by the modes

Gita 14.18 Goodness leads to elevation, passion to stagnation, ignorance to degradation

Gita 14.17 Different modes foster different emotions, dispositions and destinations

Gita 14.16 Piety purifies, craving torments and intoxication stupefies

Gita 14.15 The modes are not just psychological constructs, they are also post-mortem destination shapers

Gita 14.14 A disposition of knowledge and purity elevates to the destination of the knowledgeable and the pure

Gita 14.13 The mode of ignorance block us in both contemplation and action

Gita 14.12 Desires that drive us with the lure of pleasure are insatiable

Gita 14.11 Illumination of knowledge regulates the input and output through the doorways of the senses

Gita 14.10 The modes are neither in segregation nor in integration but are in competition

Gita 14.09 The longer a pleasure lasts, the greater its lure

Gita 14.08 The mode of ignorance begins with not knowing and leads to false knowing

Gita 14.07 Passion is composed of attachment, gives rise to craving and binds us to work

Gita 14.06 Anything that keeps us away from realizing our spirituality is binding, even if it is illuminating

Gita 14.05 Modes are a combination of matter that trigger emotion which matter in isolation doesnt

Gita 14.04 The seed-giving father is also the soul-attracting liberator

Gita 14.03 We determine our bodies and our bodies determine us

Gita 14.02 Death can’t be avoided, but affliction due to death can be

Gita 14.01 The Gita uses diverse frames of analysis to reiterate its consistent conclusion