1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 13 - Kshetra Kshetrajna Yoga - Sloka 14

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja's  Gita  Bhashya and Swami Chidbhavananda's Bhagavad Gita, both published by Ramakrishna Mission

The Effect of Evolving in Wisdom 13-15

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 13 - Kshetra Kshetrajna Yoga - Sloka 14

Sarva indriya guna abhasam Sarva indriya vivarjitam I

Asaktam sarva bhrut cha eva nirgunam guna bhoktru cha II sloka 14

सर्व इन्द्रिय गुण आभासं सर्व इन्द्रिय विवर्जितम्  I 

असक्तम् सर्व भृत च एव निर्गुणं गुण भोक्तृ च II श्लोक 14 

Shining by the functions of all the senses, yet without the senses; ABsolute, yet sustaining all; devoid of gunas yet, He experiences them.

The sunlight enables us to see the colourful forms in their true perspective. It maybe said that the sunlight reveals itself as the interpreter of all forms and colours.  While apparently assuming forms and hues, sunlight is not in itself with form and colour. It is unattached to all these modifications. Chaitanya or consciousness which is the characteristic of the Atman, plays a role similar to that of the sunlight. Consciousness lights up the senses and aids their function in their respective wont. The Brahman is the substratum to everything sentient and insentient as the screen is the substratum to the cinema pictures projected on it. The pictures do not get their colours from the screen, nor is the screen affected by these colours Still the screen helps the pictures appear in their true colours.Similarly the three gunas are not in the Brahman. All the same the Brahman aids the gunas shine in their true colours and characteristics. The awareness of the gunas is possible because of the background of the Brahman.