Bhagavad Gita 14.14यदा सत्त्वे प्रवृद्धे तु प्रलयं याति देहभृत्।तदोत्तमविदां लोकानमलान्प्रतिपद्यते ॥
yadā sattve pravṛiddhe tu pralayaṁ yāti
deha-bhṛit tadottama-vidāṁ lokān amalān pratipadyate
Sanskrit recitation
Three moods of nature · 14.1–14.18 · Teaching
Translation
If the embodied one meets death when Sattva is predominant, then they attain the spotless worlds of the knowers of the Highest.
Hindi translation
जिस समय सत्त्वगुण बढ़ा हो, उस समय यदि देहधारी मनुष्य मर जाता है, तो वह,उत्तमवेत्ताओंके निर्मल लोकोंमें जाता है।
Meaning
Lokan Amalan Sptless worlds Brahmaloka and the like where Rajas and Tamas never predominate.The Highest Deities such as Hiranyagarbha.
After Swami Sivananda
Three moods of nature· 14.1–14.18→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 14.1The Blessed Lord said, "I will again declare to thee that supreme knowledge, the best of…
- 14.2Those who, having taken refuge in this knowledge, have attained unity with Me, are neither…
- 14.3My womb is the great Brahma; in it I place the germ; thence, O Arjuna, is the birth of all…
- 14.4Whatever forms are produced, O Arjuna, in any womb whatsoever, the great Brahma is their…
- 14.5These qualities, O Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the body of the embodied, the…
- 14.6Of these, sattva, which is luminous and healthy due to its stainlessness, binds one by…
- 14.7Know, O Arjuna, that Rajas is of the nature of passion, the source of thirst and…
- 14.8But know thou Tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds fast,…
- 14.9Sattva attaches to happiness, Rajas to action, O Arjuna, while Tamas, verily shrouding…
- 14.10Now, O Arjuna, Sattva prevails, having overpowered Rajas and Tamas; then Rajas, having…
- 14.11When the wisdom-light shines through every gate of this body, then it may be known that…
- 14.12Greed, activity, the undertaking of actions, restlessness, and longing—these arise when…
- 14.13Darkness, inertia, carelessness, and delusion—these arise when Tamas is predominant, O…
14.14If the embodied one meets death when Sattva is predominant, then they attain the spotless…
- 14.15Meeting death in Rajas, he is born among those who are attached to action; and dying in…
- 14.16They say that the fruit of good action is Sattvic and pure; indeed, the fruit of Rajas is…
- 14.17From Sattva arises knowledge, and greed from Rajas; heedlessness and delusion arise from…
- 14.18Those seated in Sattva ascend; those of Rajasic nature dwell in the middle; and those of…
Word-by-word→
- tu
- indeed
- tadā
- then
- yadā
- when
- yāti
- reach
- lokān
- abodes
- sattve
- in the mode of goodness
- amalān
- pure
- pralayam
- death
- deha-bhṛit
- the embodied
- pratipadyate
- attains
- pravṛiddhe
- when premodinates
- uttama-vidām
- of the learned
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