MODES IN MATERIAL EXISTENCE
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SOUL - The Real You Cycle of KARMA
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Any Guesses?Why do we perform a certain type of action/karma?
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Bhagavad-gītā chapter 13
ConsciousImmeasurable
Eternal
CREATIVE
InertMeasurableTemporary
CREATED
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“What is the glue that binds matter and spirit together?”
The “three forces or modes” – which arise from the power of mother nature are the ropes that bind the soul almost inexorably into a
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Mode = modus (latin) = manner, fashion, style
Mode = guna (sanskrit) = material quality/behavior
Modes ?
The modes are the measures of interaction between conscious spirit and
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The three modes comprise subtle cosmological forces that are inter-twined into a 3 strand rope, where in, each of the strands are battling with one another for supremacy. These modes exert psychological influences on us, thereby impelling us toward certain
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Bhagavad-gītā 14.5sattvam rajas tama itigunāh prakrti-sambhavāhnibadhnanti mahā-bāhodehe dehinam avyayam
Material nature consists of three modes — goodness, passion and ignorance. When the eternal living entity comes in contact with nature, O mighty-armed Arjuna, he becomes conditioned by these modes.
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Passion
Ignorance
Goodness
Just as red, blue, and yellow combine to form myriad colors, these three "modes of material nature," create the full spectrum of human instinct and behavior.
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Symptoms Conditioning
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Knowledge and Happiness
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Symptoms Conditioning
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Symptoms Conditioning
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Harm your body and
others
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IGNORANCE (Destructive)
No conscious thinking and
acting. {Inertia and degradation}
PASSION(Productive)
Selfishly motivated
thinking and acting.
{Impulsive but not reflective}
GOODNESS (Enlightening)
Conscious thinking and acting.
{Contentment and elevation}
Naturally the mode of Goodness is most conducive to our Spiritual and Material life.
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living entity
ignorancepassiongoodness
perceptions
emotions
actions / responses
karma / vikarma
reactions
Material - benefits/ sufferingsSpiritual - credits / merits /
bliss
Self-realization
Material entanglement
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Akarma
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When one is freed from the influences of the modes of nature, one achieves the transcendental platform of self-
realization23
100% Pure Goodness