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TEXT 12 ye caiva sattvika bhava
SYNONYMS  ye--all
those; ca--and; eva--certainly; sattvikah--in goodness;
bhavah--states of being; rajasah--mode of passion; tamasah--mode
of ignorance; ca--also; ye--although; mattah--from
Me; eva--certainly; iti--thus; tan--those; viddhi--try
to know; na--not; tu--but; aham--I; tesu--in
those; te--they; mayi--unto Me.
TRANSLATION All states
of being--be they of goodness, passion or ignorance--are manifested by
My energy. I am, in one sense, everything--but I am independent. I am not
under the modes of this material nature.
PURPORT All material
activities in the world are being conducted under the three modes of material
nature. Although these material modes of nature are emanations from the
Supreme Lord, Krsna, He is not subject to them. For instance, under the
state laws one may be punished, but the king, the lawmaker, is not subject
to that law. Similarly, all the modes of material nature--goodness, passion
and ignorance--are emanations from the Supreme Lord Krsna, but Krsna is
not subject to material nature. Therefore He is nirguna, which means
that these gunas, or modes, although issuing from Him, do not affect
Him. That is one of the special characteristics of Bhagavan, or the Supreme
Personality of Godhead.
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