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TEXT 13 tribhir guna-mayair bhavair
SYNONYMS  tribhih--three;
guna-mayaih--by the three gunas; bhavaih--state of
being; ebhih--all these; sarvam--the whole world; idam--in
this world; jagat--universe; mohitam--deluded; na abhijanati--do
not know; mam--Me; ebhyah--above these; param--the
Supreme; avyayam--inexhaustible.
TRANSLATION Deluded by
the three modes [goodness, passion and ignorance], the whole world does
not know Me who am above the modes and inexhaustible.
PURPORT The whole world
is enchanted by three modes of material nature. Those who are bewildered
by these three modes cannot understand that transcendental to this material
nature is the Supreme Lord, Krsna. In this material world everyone is under
the influence of these three gunas and is thus bewildered.
By nature
living entities have particular types of body and particular types of psychic
and biological activities accordingly. There are four classes of men functioning
in the three material modes of nature. Those who are purely in the mode
of goodness are called brahmanas. Those who are purely in the mode
of passion are called ksatriyas. Those who are in the modes of both
passion and ignorance are called vaisyas. Those who are completely
in ignorance are called sudras. And those who are less than that
are animals or animal life. However, these designations are not permanent.
I may either be a brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya or whatever--in
any case, this life is temporary. But although life is temporary and we
do not know what we are going to be in the next life, still, by the spell
of this illusory energy, we consider ourselves in the light of this bodily
conception of life, and we thus think that we are American, Indian, Russian
or brahmana, Hindu, Muslim, etc. And if we become entangled with
the modes of material nature, then we forget the Supreme Personality of
Godhead who is behind all these modes. So Lord Krsna says that men, deluded
by these three modes of nature, do not understand that behind the material
background is the Supreme Godhead.
There are
many different kinds of living entities--human beings, demigods, animals,
etc.--and each and every one of them is under the influence of material
nature, and all of them have forgotten the transcendent Personality of
Godhead. Those who are in the modes of passion and ignorance, and even
those who are in the mode of goodness, cannot go beyond the impersonal
Brahman conception of the Absolute Truth. They are bewildered before the
Supreme Lord in His personal feature, which possesses all beauty, opulence,
knowledge, strength, fame and renunciation. When even those who are in
goodness cannot understand, what hope is there for those in passion and
ignorance? Krsna consciousness is transcendental to all these three modes
of material nature, and those who are truly established in Krsna consciousness
are actually liberated.
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