Bhagavad Gita CH 14 The Three Gunas Part 5 01

Bhagavad Gita CH 14
The Three Gunas

Chapter 14 deals with the three gunas -- sattva (purity) rajas (passion) and tamas (ignorance). The gunas determine the quality of thoughts, emotions and actions in a person. Together they bind us to the world. Like the three primary colors -- red, yellow and blue -- that mix to create all colors, the combinations of the gunas create the infinite variety of begins in the world.
Every human being has all three gunas. You come up with peak performance when sattva predominates. When rajas prevails greed, disquiet and hankering weigh you down. And when tamas reigns supreme you are overcome with delusion, heedlessness and inertia.
The mission of life is to go beyond the three gunas and get liberated from the traumatic cycle of birth, death, decay and sorrow. You are born in the world only to attain Immortality.