Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7 - Jnana Vignana Yoga - Sloka 12

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

The excellence in Beings come from God 10-12

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 7 - Jnana Vignana Yoga - Sloka 12

Sages in Naimisaranyam Forest

Ye cha eva sattvikah bhavah rajasah tamasah cha ye I

Mattah eva iti tan vidi na tva aham teshi te mayi II sloka 12
ये च एव सात्त्विकः भावः रजसः तमसः च हये ।
मत्तः एव इति तान् विदि न तव अहं तेषि ते मयि ।। श्लोक १२

And whatever beings are of Sattva, Rajas or of  tamas, know them to proceed from me, still I am not in them, they are in me. 

Prakriti or nature constituted of the three categories - sattva, rajas and tamas - has its origins and sustenance in Iswara.

But it is not like the curd coming from milk. Just as a piece of rope appears as a snake in twilight, the Lord puts on the appearance  of nature through his inscrutable maya. The rope, the original stuff, does not depend for its being on snake the assumed reality; but the seeming snake depends for its existence on the rope, the reality. To put it in another way, the unreal snake is a superimposition on Iswara. The power of appearing as the prakriti is inherent in Him. This is the meaning of "I am not in them, they are in Me".

The goal of human life is to transcend the perception of the universe and to get fixed in the vision of Iswara. 

A holy man used to smile seeing the colours produced by the chandelier in the lamp. He smiled because the seeming universe are as untrue as  these colours