Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help - 14

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Chapter 14 Proclivities to Know This diagnostic chapter of 27 slokas, known as gunatraya vibhãga yoga, Differentiation of Qualities Three, details the three human proclivities - virtue, passion and delusion. It concludes with the identification of the realized spirit. However, it may be noted that s3, s4 and s19 that deal with the Nature and the Spirit are digressions, and thus are interpolations. 1 Thus spoke the Lord: Pass I now thee that knowledge With which sages free themselves. 2 Knows whoso this reaches Me Keeps thus births ’n deaths at bay. 5 To tie the Spirit ’n body tight Uses Nature