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TEXT 6 tatra sattvam nirmalatvat
SYNONYMS  tatra--thereafter;
sattvam--mode of goodness; nirmalatvat--being purest in the
material world; prakasakam--illuminating; anamayam--without
any sinful reaction; sukha--happiness; sangena--association;
badhnati--conditions; jnana--knowledge; sangena--association;
ca--also; anagha--O sinless one.
TRANSLATION O sinless
one, the mode of goodness being purer than the others, is illuminating,
and it frees one from all sinful reactions. Those situated in that mode
develop knowledge, but they become conditioned by the concept of happiness.
PURPORT The living entities
conditioned by material nature are of various types. One is happy, another
is very active, and another is helpless. All these types of psychological
manifestations are causes of the entities' conditioned status in nature.
How they are differently conditioned is explained in this section of Bhagavad-gita.
The mode of goodness is first considered. The effect of developing the
mode of goodness in the material world is that one becomes wiser than those
otherwise conditioned. A man in the mode of goodness is not so much affected
by material miseries, and he has a sense of advancement in material knowledge.
The representative type is the brahmana, who is supposed to be situated
in the mode of goodness. This sense of happiness is due to understanding
that, in the mode of goodness, one is more or less free from sinful reactions.
Actually, in the Vedic literature it is said that the mode of goodness
means greater knowledge and a greater sense of happiness.
The difficulty
here is that when a living entity is situated in the mode of goodness,
he becomes conditioned to feel that he is advanced in knowledge and is
better than others. In this way he becomes conditioned. The best examples
are the scientist and philosopher: each is very proud of his knowledge,
and because they generally improve their living conditions, they feel a
sort of material happiness. This sense of advanced happiness in conditioned
life makes them bound by the mode of goodness of material nature. As such,
they are attracted toward working in the mode of goodness, and, as long
as they have an attraction for working in that way, they have to take some
type of body in the modes of nature. Thus there is no likelihood of liberation,
or of being transferred to the spiritual world. Repeatedly one may become
a philosopher, a scientist or a poet, and, repeatedly, become entangled
in the same disadvantages of birth and death. But, due to the illusion
of the material energy, one thinks that that sort of life is pleasant.
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