Modes of Nature

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I impregnate all the living entities

into the material nature

I am the seed giving father to all theliving entities


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Modes of Nature


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BG 9.10

maydhyakea praktisyate sa carcaram

hetunnena kaunteyajagad viparivartate

This material nature, which is one of My energies, isworking under My direction, O son of Kunti, producing

all moving and nonmoving beings. Under its rule thismanifestation is created and annihilated again andagain.


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The Three Modes of Material Nature

SATTVA GUN A RAJO GUNA TAM O GUNA ( Goodness ) ( Passion ) ( Ignorance )

- Knowledge - Unlimited desires - Madness

- Free from sins - Fruitive activity - Laziness

- Conditioned by the - Attraction between - Sleepsense of happiness man and woman - Intoxication


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Messages of WaterMasaru Emoto

Hado Institute (IHM) Tokyo

Hado(pronounced hadou to rhyme with shadow) =

wave/vibration/energy


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9/25Distilled Water Crystal


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Water Crystal Exposed toHeavy Metal Music

Water Crystal Exposed to theSong Entitled, Silent Night


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"Arigatou Thank you in

Japanese

Water that has been exposed to the wordsYou make me sick. I will kill you. typedon a paper pasted on the bottle. (Page 94)


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Water crystal of Fujiwara Dam before offering a prayer.

(Page 135)

Water crystal of Fujiwara Damafter offering a prayer.

(Page 137)


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After blessingby 500 people

The effect ofthe word Love

Water blessed with

Love and Gratitude


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Bach's "Air for the GString". (Page 77)

Bach's "GoldbergVariations". (Page 78)

Chopin's"Farewell Song".

(Page 79)

Beethovens musicPastoral

Mozart

Kawachi Folk DanceSong. (Page 83)


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Distilled water labeled "Do It".

Distilled water labeled "Let's Do It".


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Crystal of water that has been exposed to playing of Healing

Music "Hado". (Page 80)


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IGNORANCE PASSION GOODNESS PURE GOODNESS

GeneralCharacteristics

Foolishness, madness,illusion, inertia, indolenceand sleep.

Unlimited,uncontrollable desiresand longings, intense

endeavor, greed, bondage to materialfruitive activities andattachment to the fruitsof action.

Relative purity,illumination, happinessand freedom from

sinful reactions.Conducive to realknowledge.

Complete, unmotivated,unfailing devotion to theSupreme Personality of

Godhead. Absoluteknowledge, purity,illumination, happinessand freedom from sinfulreactions.

DestinationAfter death

The hellish worlds and theanimal kingdom.

The association offruitive workers on theearthly planets.

The heavenly planets. The eternal abode of theSupreme Lord.

Objects ofworship

Ghosts and spirits. Demons, powerfulmen and self-

proclaimed imitationgods.

The demigods and theimpersonal conceptionof God.

The Supreme Personalityof Godhead.

Food Tasteless, stale, putrid,decomposed, unclean.Cooked more than threehours before being eaten.Remnants of the meals ofothers. Meat, fish, eggs andliquor.

Too bitter, sour, salty, pungent, rich, dry orhot. Causes pain,distress and disease.

Increases longevity, purifies onesexistence, givesstrength, health,happiness andsatisfaction.

Nourishing, sweet, juicy, fattening and palatable. Milk products, grains, sugar,fruit and vegetables.

Frees one from past sinfulreactions and protects onefrom futurecontamination. Invokesones dormant Krsnaconsciousness. Prepared

by devotees according toscriptural injunctions andoffered with devotion tothe Supreme Lord.Remnants of the meal of asaintly person or thespiritual master.


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Sacrifice Performed faithlessly, indefiance of scripturalinjunctions, and with no

spiritual food distributed,no hymns chanted and noremuneration made to the

priests.

Performed proudly,ostentatiously, for thesake of some material

end or benefit (such aselevation to theheavenly kingdom).

Performed as a duty,according to scripturalregulations, and with no

expectation of reward.

Performed according toscriptural injunctions, andunder the guidance of the

spiritual master, to pleasethe Supreme Lord.

Austerity Performed foolishly bymeans of obstinate self-torture or to destroy orinjure others.

Performedostentatiously to gainrespect, honor andreverence. Brings onlyunstable, temporaryresults.

Performed with faith andwithout desires for onesmaterial benefit.

Bodily Austerities: cleanliness, simplicity,celibacy, nonviolence,offering of respect to thedemigods, brahmanas, spiritual master, and superiorslike the mother and father.

Austerities of Speech: speaking beneficially,truthfully and inoffensivelyand with reference to Vedicauthorities.

Mental Austerities: Serenity,

simplicity, gravity, self-control and purity of thought,detaching the mind from sensegratification.

Performed with faith andwith a desire to satisfy theSupreme Personality ofGodhead.

Charity Performed at an impropertime and place, to anunworthy person like agambler or drunkard, orcontemptuously, withoutrespect.

Performed to getsomething in return,with a desire forfruitive results, or in agrudging mood.

Performed as a duty, at the proper time and place, to aworthy person and with noexpectation of materialreturns.

Performed only to satisfythe Supreme Lord.


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Renunciation Consists of giving up ones prescribed duties because ofillusion.

Consists of giving up ones prescribed duties because offear or because they appeartroublesome.

Consists of performingones prescribed duties

because they ought to be done and

abandoning attachmentto the fruits of oneswork.

Consists of performingones prescribed duties inKrsna consciousness andemploying the fruits of

ones work for thesatisfaction of Krsna.

Knowledge Very meager. Unrelated tothe Absolute Truth. Breedsattachment to one kind ofwork as all in all. Concernedonly with bodily comforts,eating, sleeping, mating anddefending, and so resembles

the knowledge of animals.

Gives rise to speculativedoctrines and theoriesthrough which one sees the

body as the self andconsciousness as atemporary by-product of the

body. Rules out the

existence of the eternalindividual soul within.

Gives rise to a visionof one undividedspiritual force withinthe bodies of all living

beings.

Enables one to see allliving beings as eternal,individual, spiritualservants of the supremeliving being, Krnsa.

Action Irresponsible, violent,distressing to others.Performed in illusion,without consideration ofscriptural injunctions orfuture bondage andconsequences. Results infurther foolishness.

Performed under falseegoism, and with greateffort, to satisfy onesdesires to enjoy the fruits ofhis work. Results in distress.

Performed underscriptural regulations,as a matter of duty,without attachment,and without love andhate, by one whorenounces the fruits ofhis actions. Results in

purification.

Performed solely for thesatisfaction of Krsna andthe spiritual master.

Worker Disregards scripturalinjunctions. Materialistic,obstinate, cheating, lazy,morose, procrastinating andexpert in insulting others.

Attached to the fruits of hiswork and intent on enjoyingthem. Greedy, envious andunclean. Entangled byhappiness when successfuland distress whenunsuccessful. Heedless ofwhether his work is pure orimpure.

Free from materialattachments, pride andfalse ego. Enthusiastic,resolute and unswayed

by success or failure.

Unconditionally servesKrsna and the spiritualmaster under any and allcircumstances.


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UnderstandingConsiders irreligion to bereligion, and religion to birreligion. Strives alwaysin the wrong direction.

Misguided, perverseand imperfect. Cannotdistinguish betweenreligion and irreligion,truth and untruth andwhat should andshould not be done.

Intelligentlydiscriminates, underscriptural direction,

between what is to bedone and not to bedone, what is to befeared and not to befeared, and what isliberating and what is

binding.

Always perfectlyconsiders Krsna through

personal realization,confirmed by thescriptures and thespiritual master.

DeterminationCannot go beyonddaydreaming, fearfulness,lamentation, morseness andillusion.

Fixed upon securingthe fruits of religion,economic developmentand sense gratification.

Practicallyunbreakable. Sustainedwith steadfastness byyoga, which controlsthe activities of themind, life and senses.

Fully engaged in Krsnaconsciousness and neverdeviated by anything else.

Happiness Blind to self-realization,delusion from beginning toend. Comes about fromsleep, laziness and illusion.

Derived from contactof the senses with theirobjects. Seems likenectar at first but

poison at the end.Epitomized by sexualenjoyment.

Compared to poison inthe beginning butnectar at the end

because it involves

control of the mindand senses butawakens one to self-realization.

Derived from servicerendered by a purifiedsoul to the SupremePersonality of Godhead in

an eternal lovingrelationship. Ever-increasing ecstasy.Unparalleled by anymundane experience oremotion.


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BG 13.22

purua prakti stho hibhukte prakti jn gun

kraa guas gosysad asad yoni janmasu

The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways oflife, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his

association with that material nature. Thus he meets withgood and evil among various species.


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BG 7.14

daiv hy e gua maymama my duratyay

mm eva ye prapadyantemym et taranti te

This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficultto overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it.


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BG 14.26

Mam ca yo avyabhicarenaBhakti yogena sevateSagunan samatityatanBrahma bhuyaya kalpate

Who ever engages in full devotional service, unfailing in all circumstances, at oncetranscends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of transcendence


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BG 14.27

Brahmano hi pratistaham Amrutasyavyayasya caSasvatasya ca dharmasyaSukhaikantikasya ca

I am the basis of brahman, which is immortal, imperishableand eternal and is the constitutional position of happiness

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