1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 15 - Purushottama Yoga - Sloka 4

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

Is Bhakti the only means to go beyond the gunas? The elucidation comes :

Cut the Tree to Get Moksha 3-4

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 15 - Purushottama Yoga - Sloka 4

Tatah padam tat parimargitavyam yasmin gatah na nivartanti bhuyah I

Tam eva cha adhyam purusham prapadhye yatah pravrittih prasruta purani II sloka 4

ततः पदम् तत् परिमार्गितव्यम् यस्मिन् गतः न निवर्तन्ति भूयः I 

तं एव च अध्यं पुरुषं प्रपध्ये यतः प्रवृत्तिः प्रसृता पोरणि II श्लोक 4

Then that goal should be sought for, going whither, they do not return again. I seek refuge in the primeval purusha whence streamed forth the eternal activity.

Recoiling from the attachment to the world is a negative act producing no far reaching effects. It has therefore to be made to take a positive turn. Aspiringly ardently for the Brahmasattva is what is wanted. Giving oneself over to prakriti and giving oneself over to Purusha - these acts are opposed to each other and produce opposite results. The former breeds ignorance and promotes bondage of the jivatman to the wheel of birth and death, while the latter liberates and leads him into the plenitude of the Brahman. The intensity and completeness of the dedication to brahman hastens the spiritual enlightenment of the sadhaka.

As clouds come forth from the sea, the prakriti of eternal activity ever steams forth from brahman. The eternal process of the appearance and disappearance of prakriti does not in any way affect the supreme purusha. The detachment from the prakriti and the staunch attachment to the purusha are the potent means for the destruction of the tree of samsara of the jivatman.

On detection the thief takes to his heels. Similarly when you see into the nature of prakriti it ceases to affect you.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa