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 :
The Competent Ones - 5
1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 15 - Purushottama Yoga - Sloka 5
Nirman mohah jita sanga doshah adhyatma nityah vinivrat ta kamah I
Dvandaih vimuktah sukha dukha sangaih gaccha anti amuDhah padam avyayam tat II sloka 5
निर्मान मोहः जित संग दोषः अध्यात्म नित्यः विनिव्रत त कामः I
द्वन्दैः विमुक्तः सुख दुख संगैः गच्छ अन्ति अमूढः पदम् अव्ययम् तत् II श्लोक 5
Free from pride and delusion, with the evil of attachment conquered, ever dwelling in the slef, their desires being completely stilled, liberated from the pairs of opposites known as pleasure and pain, the undeluded reach that goal eternal.
Ridding the mind of all impurities and fixing it on atman - these are the twofold intents on which the sadhaka engages himself. The mind becomes all powerful as it gains in purity. Because of its purity it gains access to atman. The greatest and the holiest of its achievments lies in its getting fixed in the atman. Man becomes god through this benign act of the mind.
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