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TEXT 19 jnanam karma ca karta ca
SYNONYMS  jnanam--knowledge;
karma--work; ca--also; karta--worker; ca--also;
tridha--three kinds; eva--certainly; guna-bhedatah--in
terms of different modes of material nature; procyate--is said;
guna-sankhyane--in terms of different modes; yatha-vat--as
they act; srnu--hear; tani--all of them; api--also.
TRANSLATION In accordance
with the three modes of material nature, there are three kinds of knowledge,
action, and performers of action. Listen as I describe them.
PURPORT In the Fourteenth
Chapter the three divisions of the modes of material nature were elaborately
described. In that chapter it was said that the mode of goodness is illuminating,
the mode of passion materialistic, and the mode of ignorance conducive
to laziness and indolence. All the modes of material nature are binding;
they are not sources of liberation. Even in the mode of goodness one is
conditioned. In the Seventeenth Chapter, the different types of worship
by different types of men in different modes of material nature were described.
In this verse, the Lord wishes to speak about the different types of knowledge,
workers, and work itself according to the three material modes.
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