| 20. Having crossed
beyond these three gunas, which are the source of the body, the embodied
one is freed from birth, death, decay and pain, and attains the immortal.
The wise man crosses, while still alive, beyond the three gunas which constitute
the upadhi of Maya t and the seed out of which the body is evolved. He is
emancipated, while still alive, from birth, death, decay and pain, and attains
to immortality: in this way he attains to My being. The mark of a liberated
soul. When it was said that (the wise man) crosses beyond the gunas and
attains to immortality while still alive, Arjuna found an occasion for a
question and asked: Arjuna said: |
