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श्री भगवानुवाचप्रकाशं च प्रवृत्तिं च मोहमेव च पाण्डव।न द्वेष्टि सम्प्रवृत्तानि न निवृत्तानि काङ्क्षति।।14.22।।

śhrī-bhagavān uvācha prakāśhaṁ cha pravṛittiṁ cha moham eva cha pāṇḍava na dveṣhṭi sampravṛittāni na nivṛittāni kāṅkṣhati

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 14, Verse 22
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The Blessed Lord said, "When light, activity, and delusion are present, he does not hate them, nor does he long for them when they are absent.

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Why: Krishna answers that such a person is not averse to illumination, activity, or delusion when they arise, nor do they long for them when absent, describing a specific kind of non-reactive relationship to all three qualities rather than needing to have already achieved permanent goodness.

In life: real progress here doesn't mean permanently living only in the favorable quality, it means becoming less reactive to whichever quality shows up, without either resisting it or craving it back.

Teaching: practice this exact non-reactive relationship the next time any of the three qualities, clarity, restlessness, dullness, arises in you, notice it without either resisting its presence or craving its return once it passes.

śhrī-bhagavān uvāchathe Supreme Divine Personality said
prakāśhamillumination
chaand
pravṛittimactivity
chaand
mohamdelusion
evaeven
chaand
pāṇḍavaArjun, the son of Pandu
na dveṣhṭido not hate
sampravṛittāniwhen present
nanor
nivṛittāniwhen absent
kāṅkṣhatilongs

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
14.22 प्रकाशम् light? च and? प्रवृत्तिम् activity? च and? मोहम् delusion? एव even? च and? पाण्डव O Arjuna? न not? द्वेष्टि hates? सम्प्रवृत्तानि (when) gone forth? न not? निवृत्तानि when absent? काङ्क्षति longs.Commentary This is the answer to Arjunas first estion. Light is the effect of Sattva? activity of Rajas and delusion of Tamas. The liberated sage does not hate them when they are present. When Sattva shines he is not carried away by pride. He does not think? I am a vey learned man. When the impulse for action is awakened in the body or when there is a divine call for him to do work for the solidarity of the world (Lokasangraha) he does not hate any action and he does not regret it after the action is accomplished. He feels no remorse while performing actions. The work is like the play of a child. While inertia increases in him? he is not deluded by infatuation.Only an ignorant man thinks Tamas has entered into me. I am deluded. I am under the influence of heedlessness? torpor? sloth? laziness and indolence. Now I am under the influence of Rajas. I am forced to do activities. This is painful. I have fallen from my true nature. This gives me a lot of pain. Now Sattva predominates in me. I am attached to happiness and knowledge. I am proud of my learning and better status.The liberated sage who has transcended the Gunas does not thus hate them when they are present.A man of Sattva or Rajas or Tamas longs for light? action or inertia which first manifested themselves and disappeared. But a liberated sage or one who has gone beyond the three alities does not at all long for these states which have vanished. This mark or characteristic is an internal mental state. It cannot be perceived or detected by others. It can be felt by ones own self alone. If one is endowed with clairvoyant vision or the inner eye of intuition? he can directly behold the longins that arise in the mind of another man.In the following three verses the Lord gives His answer to Arjunas second estion What is the conduct of the sage who has crossed over the Gunas