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गुणानेतानतीत्य त्रीन्देही देहसमुद्भवान्।जन्ममृत्युजरादुःखैर्विमुक्तोऽमृतमश्नुते।।14.20।।

guṇān etān atītya trīn dehī deha-samudbhavān janma-mṛityu-jarā-duḥkhair vimukto ’mṛitam aśhnute

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 14, Verse 20
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The embodied one, having crossed beyond these three Gunas from which the body is evolved, is freed from birth, death, decay, and pain, and attains immortality.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: transcending these three qualities that originate with the body, freed from birth, death, old age, and pain, one attains immortality, describing the actual, practical goal, freedom from being wholly identified with whichever quality currently dominates.

In life: the practical goal here isn't eliminating the three qualities entirely, which naturally rise and fall, it's not being wholly identified with or controlled by whichever one happens to currently dominate.

Teaching: aim for this specific, practical target, noticing which quality is currently dominant without being wholly controlled by it, rather than the unrealistic goal of eliminating all three qualities from your experience entirely.

guṇānthe three modes of material nature
etānthese
atītyatranscending
trīnthree
dehīthe embodied
dehabody
samudbhavānproduced of
janmabirth
mṛityudeath
jarāold age
duḥkhaiḥmisery
vimuktaḥfreed from
amṛitamimmortality
aśhnuteattains

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
14.20 गुणान् Gunas? एतान् these? अतीत्य having crossed? त्रीन् three? देही the embodied? देहसमुद्भवान् out of which the body is evolved? जन्ममृत्युजरादुःखैः from birth? death? decay and pain? विमुक्तः freed? अमृतम् immortality? अश्नुते attains to.Commentary Just as a river is absorbed in the ocean? so also he who has? while still alive? gone beyond the alities which form the seed from which all bodies have sprung and of which they are composed? is absorbed in Me. He ever enjoys the bliss of the Eternal. He attains release or Moksha. He attains to My Being.When the Lord said that the wise man crosses beyond the three alities and attains immortality? Arjuna became inspired with the desire of learning more about it. Just as he has asked a estion about the sage of steady wisdom in chapter II? verse 54? he now asks Lord Krishna about the characteristics of a sage who has crossed over the three alities. How does he act What is his conduct or behaviour How has he gone beyond the alities