Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7 - Jnana Vignana Yoga - Sloka 13

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The Maya of the Three Gunas 13-15

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 7 - Jnana Vignana Yoga - Sloka 13

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Tribhih guna mayaih bhavaih ebhih sarvam idam jagat I

Mohitam na abhi janati mam ebhyah param avyayam II sloka 13

त्रिभिः गुण मयैः भावैः एभिः सर्वं इदं जगत ।

मोहितं न अभि जानाति माम एभ्यः परम् अव्ययं ।। श्लोक १३

Deluded by these threefold dispositions of Prakriti - the gunas, this world does not know me, who am above them and immutable. 

Brahman here is designated as Param which means beyond the One beyond the ken of the intellect and the senses. This reality undergoes no modification and so it is immutable.

Those who see a cinema take no note of the screen on which it is projected. The phenomenal universe is made of the three gunas; likes and dislikes in all forms are also born of the three gunas. People entangled in these three categories are immersed in their experiences of the phenomenal existence and they take no note of the basis which is unaffected by all these modifications. The chitakasa or Brahman the pure consciousness remains as the substratum of the perceived universe.They who are bound by the gunas are unable to cognise it

How shall one extricate oneself from this delusion? The answer comes in the next sloka