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TEXT 19 nanyam gunebhyah kartaram
SYNONYMS  na--never;
anyam--other than; gunebhyah--from the qualities; kartaram--the
performer; yada--when; drasta anupasyati--he who sees
properly; gunebhyah ca--from the modes of nature; param--transcendental;
vetti--know; mat-bhavam--My spiritual nature; sah--he;
adhigacchati--is promoted.
TRANSLATION When you
see that there is nothing beyond these modes of nature in all activities
and that the Supreme Lord is transcendental to all these modes, then you
can know My spiritual nature.
PURPORT One can transcend
all the activities of the modes of material nature simply by understanding
them properly by learning from the proper souls. The real spiritual master
is Krsna, and He is imparting this spiritual knowledge to Arjuna. Similarly,
it is from those who are fully in Krsna consciousness that one has to learn
this science of activities in terms of the modes of nature. Otherwise,
one's life will be misdirected. By the instruction of a bona fide spiritual
master, a living entity can know of his spiritual position, his material
body, his senses, how he is entrapped, and how he is under the spell of
the material modes of nature. He is helpless, being in the grip of these
modes, but when he can see his real position, then he can attain to the
transcendental platform, having the scope for spiritual life. Actually,
the living entity is not the performer of different activities. He is forced
to act because he is situated in a particular type of body, conducted by
some particular mode of material nature. Unless one has the help of spiritual
authority, he cannot understand in what position he is actually situated.
With the association of a bona fide spiritual master, he can see his real
position, and, by such an understanding, he can become fixed in full Krsna
consciousness. A man in Krsna consciousness is not controlled by the spell
of the material modes of nature. It has already been stated in the Seventh
Chapter that one who has surrendered to Krsna is relieved from the activities
of material nature. Therefore for one who is able to see things as they
are, the influence of material nature gradually ceases.
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