1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 15 - Purushottama Yoga - Sloka 6

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 Supreme Abode - 6

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 15 - Purushottama Yoga - Sloka 6

Krishna saving atmas from samsara

Na tad bhasayate suryah na shasha ankah na pavakah I

Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama II sloka 6

न तद् भास्यते सूर्यः न शाश अङ्कः न पावकः I 

यद् गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद् धाम परमम् मम II श्लोक 6

That supreme light (ie. the individual self), reaching which they do not retun any more, is Mine; the sun does not illumine it nor the moon, nor fire.

The sun can not illumine the light of the self, nor moon nor fire. for, knowledge is indeed that which illumines them all. External lights, however, are helpful only in removing the darkness which hinders the contact between the senses and objects.It is the intelligence of the self that reveals such external lights. What reveals this (the self) is yoga (ie. meditation) only. Beginningless karma is the hindrance. It has been taught that the way for the erasing of karma is self surrender to the Lord through detachment etc. That supreme light, is the self, which is my glory (Vibhuti) and therefore belongs to Me. The supremacy of this light (individual self) consists in its capacity to illumine even the sun and other bodies. The sun etc, can not illuminate the light of knowledge. Knowledge alone can iluminate all things (including the light of the sun which sheds only physical light on the objects)