1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 14 - Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 14

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

The ways of the three gunas are now explained

The Symptoms of the Gunas 11-18

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 14 - Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 14

Kanchi Varadaraja Perumal

Yada sattve pravruddhe tu pralayam yati deha bhrutam I

Tada uttama vidam lokan amalan prati padhyate II sloka 14

यदा सत्त्वे प्रवृद्धे तु प्रलयं यति देह भृत I 

तदा उत्तम विदां लोकन् अमलान् प्रतिपद्यते  II  श्लोक 14

If the embodied one meets with death when sattva is predominant, then he gets to the pure worlds of those who know the highest. 

The thought uppermost in the mind at the time of departing the body, is the deciding factor of the next birth of the jivatman. Because of the prevalence of sattva at that juncture, godly thoughts are inevitable. And  it reaches the pure worlds, ie. regions conducive to teh knowledge of the self. The purport is this; if sattva preponnderates in aperson at teh time of death, he will be reborn in teh families of those who have knowledge of the self and thus be qualified to perform auspicious acts which are the means of attaining the true knowledge of the self.

Thirunakshatram of Andal

Thirunakshatram of Andal on July 30, 2014

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Amsam of  Bhoomidevi

Acharya Periya Alwar

Year of Birth 650 AD

Life span 6 years

Tamil birth Month & Nakshatram  Adi pooram

Parents Periyazhwar

Birth place Srivilliputtur

Name given at birth Kodai

Works Thiruppavai, Nachiyar Thirumozhi

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andal                                               

http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/alvars/andal/                 

http://tiruppavai.net/about.html    

http://haricharanam.blogspot.in/2010/02/kodai-little-girl-in-love-with-ranga.html

THIS DAY OF ADI POORAM IS ALSO THE DAY WHEN ANANTALWAN, A CLOSE DISCIPLE OF SWAMI RAMANUJA, ATTAINED PARAMA PADAM

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1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 14 - Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 13

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

The ways of the three gunas are now explained

The Symptoms of the Gunas 11-18

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 14 - Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 13

Aprakashah apravrittih cha pramadah mohah eva cha I

Tamasi etani jayante vivruddhe kuru nandana II sloka 13

अप्रकाशः अप्रवृत्तिः च प्रमादः मोहः एव च I 

तमसि एतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरु नन्दन II श्लोक 13

Indiscrimination, inertness, heedlessness and delusion - these arise, O joy of the kurus, when Tamas is predominant.

The literal meaning of the word aprakasa  is darkness. But the darkness of the mind lands one into indiscrimination. There is no initiative in the one lacking in indiscrimination. Lethargy overtakes such a dullard. He becomes heedless or indifferent to progress and prosperity in life. He is so much deluded that he mistakes stagnation for self - sufficiency. That man becomes depraved. These are all because of the predominance of Tamas.

Is there any connection between the ascendancy of the guna and the reincarnation of the jivatman? The answer comes in the next  sloka

1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 14 - Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 12

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

The ways of the three gunas are now explained

The Symptoms of the Gunas 11-18

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 14 - Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga - Sloka 12

Lobhah pravrittih arambhah karmanam ashamah spruha I

Rajasi etani jayante vivruddhe bharata rishabha II sloka 12

लोभः प्रवृत्तिः आरम्भः कर्मणां अशमः स्पृहा I 

राजसि एतानि जयन्ते विवृद्धे भरत ऋषभ II श्लोक 12

Greed, activity, the undertaking of actions, unrest, longing, these arise O best of Bharatas, when Rajas is predominant.

Attempt at owning another's property is greed. Officiously engaging oneself in matters not one's own is what is meant by activity here.