|| Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya||

Chapter – 317 – The legend of Lord Krishna -  168

Guna: Srijanthi Karmani Gunoanusrijathe  Gunan | Jeevasthu Gunasamyuktho Bhungthe Karmaphalanyasau ||

Bhagavan speaks “ An ignorant take pride in wealth, matter, possessions, people, fame, etc. and undergoes endless sufferings.  The Karma/deeds are under the  influence of the Gunas, known as Rajasik, Swathik and Tamasik, nature, and the fruits of the Karma based on the nature of the Karma, in this way cycles of Karma keeps repeating.  As long as the mind and intellect are wedged in the material matters and bondages, the individual never realizes the all-pervasive nature of the supreme soul and oneness-in all; it creates over dependency and attachment to people, possessions and wealth, which will cause extreme anxieties and fear.  The ‘Time’ has to play its role and no one has control over it.  The interest in worldly matters and bondage causes more fear of the supreme Lord.   The people who have the knowledge of the supreme soul resides as soul and its all-pervasive nature would be fearless, will have the ability to receive all the happenings in life as the grace of supreme Lord.”

 Yethath Acchyutha Mey Bhroohi Prashnam Prashnavidham Vara | Nithyamuktho  Nithyabadhdha: Yeka Yevethi Mey Bhrama: ||

Udhdhava speaks “ Oh! Bhagavan, you have described the nature of thoughts that has the fleeting tendency, do not affect the supreme soul.  You have also mentioned that people who are wedged in the thoughts of material well-beings and bondage undergoes sufferings.  Oh! Achyutha, kindly narrate how did an individual perform all the tasks/Nithyabadhdha and remain liberated soul/Nithyamuktha? Or how did a Nithyamuktha/liberated soul perform all the tasks of the worldly life simultaneously?”

Badhdho Muktha Ithi Vyakhya Gunatho Mey Na  Vasthutha: | Gunasya  Maya  Moolathvanna Mey Moksho Na Bandhanam ||Shokam Mohau Sukham Dhukham Dehopaththishcha Mayaya| Swapno Yadhathmana: Khyathi: Samsrithir Na Thu Vasthavi ||

Bhagavan speaks “ Oh! Udhdhava, the inherited virtues in an individual leads to thoughts which have fleeting nature and the spiritual fervor in the individual leads to the supreme Lord.   The grief, desire, happiness, sorrows, and ailments are caused by Maya, like the dreams that are not real. The person who is wedged in the cluster of unwanted thoughts lacks freedom/NithyaBadhdha, like a silkworm that fastens itself with its own thread, unlike the spider that creates the web to catch its prey and absorbs it as and when it requires.  Oh! Udhdhava, there are two branches called Vidhya/wisdom and Avidhya/ignorance.  The individual who is wedged in material matters and bondage is ignorant, the intellectuals with the constant practice attain wisdom, achieve the knowledge of supreme Lord who resides as soul and realizes eternal presence in them, eventually gets relieved from the worldly matters and bondage.  The Paramathma/supreme soul witnesses all the deeds of the Jeeva residing as a soul in them.”