KNOW YOURSELF

1.  The material world consists  of three modes of nature namely goodness, passion and ignorance. These three modes are present in everybody in various degrees. A person is judged by the mode which he adopts. The mode of goodness is purer than the other two. It is free from sinful reactions. Those who are in this mode develop knowledge but they are conditioned by the concept of happiness. The mode of passion gives birth to unlimited desires and longings. The mode of ignorance causes delusion, lethargy and sleep. The bind the soul. Goodness conditions one to happiness and bliss, passion to fruits of action and ignorance results in madness. Each mode takes turn in ruling the society. When one dies in the mode of goodness he attains pure and higher planets. One in the mode of passion takes birth in the material world and one who dies in the v mode of ignorance attains hellish births and planets. When the embodied being reaches beyond these modes, he drinks nectar even in this life.