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संत साहित्य · Jñāneśvarī · Adhyāya 14

Cluster 0500 — BG-14.9-10 — *sattvam sukhe sañjayati rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata — jñānam āvṛtya tu tamaḥ pramāde sañjayaty uta — rajas tamaś cābhibhūya sattvam bhavati bhārata — rajaḥ sattvam tamaś caiva tamaḥ sattvam rajas tathā*

BG-14.9-10

Sanskrit

सत्त्वं सुखे संजयति रजः कर्मणि भारत। ज्ञानमावृत्य तु तमः प्रमादे संजयत्युत॥९॥

रजस्तमश्चाभिभूय सत्त्वं भवति भारत। रजः सत्त्वं तमश्चैव तमः सत्त्वं रजस्तथा॥१०॥

Translation

BG-14.9 — SATTVA (sattvam) ATTACHES (sañjayati) to-SUKHA (sukhe); RAJAS (rajaḥ) to-KARMA (karmaṇi) O-BHĀRATA; TAMAS (tamaḥ), COVERING JÑĀNA (jñānam āvṛtya), ATTACHES to-PRAMĀDA (pramāde sañjayaty uta).

BG-14.10 — OVERCOMING RAJAS-and-TAMAS (rajas tamaś cābhibhūya) SATTVA BECOMES-PROMINENT (sattvam bhavati) O-BHĀRATA; RAJAS over-SATTVA-and-TAMAS (rajaḥ sattvam tamaś caiva), and TAMAS over-SATTVA-and-RAJAS likewise (tamaḥ sattvam rajas tathā).

Function

MILESTONE — the 500th cluster file of the corpus. BG-14.9-10 delivers the iconic merged 2-verse pair culminating the BG-14.5-10 guṇa-binding doctrinal-block:

  • BG-14.9 = the iconic GUṆA-ATTACHING-FUNCTION recap distilling per-guṇa effect into the three-fold formula:
  • SATTVA → SUKHA-attachment (recapping BG-14.6 sukha-sangena badhnāti)
  • RAJAS → KARMA-attachment (recapping BG-14.7 karma-sangena dehinam)
  • TAMAS → PRAMĀDA-attachment (recapping BG-14.8 pramādālasya-nidrābhis tan nibadhnāti)
    • the iconic JÑĀNĀVARAṆA jñāna-COVERING tamas-function

  • BG-14.10 = the FAMOUS GUṆA-DOMINANCE-ROTATION verse, the foundational dynamic-cycling doctrine: each guṇa overcomes the other two in continuous rotation, none holds permanent dominance, the dehī experiences shifting-dominance never static-equilibrium.

Jñāneśvar's 8-ovi Treatment (3+1+1+2+1 architecture)

(i) 14.196-14.198 — 3-Simile-Cascade for Guṇa-Dominance (3 ovis)

  • 14.196 — KAPHA-VĀTA-OVERCOME-BY-PITTA — paim harūni kapha vāta — jaim dēhīm āṭōpē pitta — taim karī santapta — dēha jēvīm (OVERCOMING KAPHA-and-VĀTA — when PITTA FILLS the BODY — it makes the BODY INFLAMED). The classical Marathi Āyurvedic-tridoṣa-physiology.

  • 14.197 — COLD-OVERCOME-BY-SUN — kām variṣa ātapa jaisēm — jiṇauni śīta-chi disē — tēvhām hōya himva aisēm — ākāśa hēm (or as MONSOON-and-SUN-CONQUERING-COLD — then the SKY APPEARS COOL). The atmospheric-cycle imagery.

  • 14.198 — SVAPNA-JĀGRTI-OVERCOME-BY-SUṢUPTI — nānā svapna jāgrtī — lōpūni yē suṣuptī — taim kṣaṇu ēka citta-vrttī — tēci hōya (or DREAM-and-WAKING SUPPRESSED — DEEP-SLEEP ARRIVES — then for ONE MOMENT the CITTA-VRTTI BECOMES THAT). The classical Māṇḍūkya-three-avasthā doctrine.

(ii) 14.199 — Sattva-Dominance-Sukha-Attachment (1 ovi)

  • 14.199 — the iconic precise rendering of BG-14.9's sattvam sukhe sañjayati: taisīm rajatamēm hāravī — jaim sattva mājū miravī — taim jīvā karavīm mhaṇavī — sukhiyā nā mī (SO SATTVA DEFEATING RAJAS-and-TAMAS — and DISPLAYING its PROMINENCE — MAKES the JĪVA DECLARE — AM I NOT HAPPY). The iconic JĪVA-KARAVĪṀ-MHAṆAVĪ + SUKHIYĀ-NĀ-MĪ self-declarative-yield mechanism.

(iii) 14.200 — Tamas-Dominance-Pramāda-Attachment (1 ovi)

  • 14.200 — the iconic precise rendering of BG-14.9's tamaḥ pramāde sañjayaty: taisēm-ci sattva raja — lōpūni tamāchēm bhōja — vaḷaghēm taim sahaja — pramādīm hōya (SO SATTVA-RAJAS SUPPRESSED — TAMAS-S ASCENT RISES — NATURALLY then into PRAMĀDA it BECOMES). The iconic SAHAJA-NATURALLY pedagogical-marker.

(iv) 14.201-14.202 — Rajas-Dominance-Karma-Attachment Pair (2 ovis)

  • 14.201 — the iconic precise rendering of BG-14.10's third dominance-rotation: tayāci gā paripāṭhīm — sattva tamātēm pōṭīm — ghālūni jēvhām uṭhī — rajōguṇa (IN THAT SEQUENCE O-FRIEND — SATTVA SWALLOWING TAMAS IN-the-BELLY — when RAJOGUṆA RISES). The iconic PŌṬĪṀ-GHĀLŪNI SWALLOWING-IN-BELLY vivid-domestic-Marathi-imagery.

  • 14.202 — the iconic precise rendering of BG-14.9's rajaḥ karmaṇi: tēvhām karmāvāñcūni kāmhī — āna gōmaṭēm nāhīm — aisēm mānī dēhīm — dēha-rāju (then EXCEPT-KARMA NOTHING — ELSE IS GOOD — SO MUSES IN-the-BODY — the DEHA-RĀJA). The classical Jñāneśvarī DĒHA-RĀJU BODY-KING figure.

(v) 14.203 — Narrator-Jñāneśvar Voice-Shift Transition (1 ovi)

  • 14.203 — triguṇa vrddhi nirūpaṇa — tīm ślōkīm sāngitalēm jāṇa — ātām sattvādi vrddhi lakṣaṇa — sādara pariyēsīm (THE THREE-GUṆA VRDDHI NIRŪPAṆA — KNOW it was EXPLAINED IN THREE ŚLOKAS — NOW the SATTVĀDI VRDDHI LAKṢAṆA — RESPECTFULLY LISTEN). The iconic TRIGUṆA-VRDDHI-NIRŪPAṆA-COMPLETION + SATTVĀDI-VRDDHI-LAKṢAṆA-announcement narrator-transition introducing BG-14.11-13 symptom-catalog.

Five precise Marathi elevations beyond the Sanskrit

  1. Iconic 3-simile-cascade for guṇa-dominance (14.196-14.198) — three domains of universal-Marathi-experiential-imagery (Āyurvedic-tridoṣa + atmospheric-cycle + three-avasthā) grounding the abstract BG-14.10 dominance-rotation in immediate bodily-atmospheric-mental experience. Vyāsa's terse Sanskrit cycling-formula deploys no such similes — purely Marathi pedagogical-elevation.

  2. Iconic JĪVĀ-KARAVĪṀ-MHAṆAVĪ + SUKHIYĀ-NĀ-MĪ self-declarative-yield (14.199) — the precise mechanism by which sattva-dominance YIELDS sukha-attachment is rendered via the iconic Marathi self-declarative-yield: SATTVA MAKES JĪVA DECLARE am I not happy. This precise mechanism-rendering is purely Marathi pedagogical-elevation beyond Vyāsa's terse sattvam sukhe sañjayati.

  3. Iconic PŌṬĪṀ-GHĀLŪNI SWALLOWING-IN-the-BELLY vivid-domestic-imagery (14.201) — the precise rendering of BG-14.10's dominance-rotation as one-guṇa-SWALLOWING-the-other-IN-the-BELLY is purely Marathi vivid-domestic-INGESTION-vocabulary, beyond Vyāsa's terse rajas tamaś cābhibhūya.

  4. Iconic DĒHA-RĀJU BODY-KING classical Jñāneśvarī figure (14.202) — the classical Jñāneśvarī technical-figure naming the embodied-jīva as the BODY-KING who MUSES nothing-except-karma-is-good under rajas-dominance is purely Marathi pedagogical-elevation, the iconic Jñāneśvarī recurring-technical-figure for the dehī.

  5. Iconic narrator-Jñāneśvar voice-shift TRIGUṆA-VRDDHI-NIRŪPAṆA-COMPLETION announcement (14.203) — the only voice-shift in the cluster, marking the doctrinal-pivot from RECAP to SYMPTOM-CATALOG via the iconic Marathi narrator-meta-comment with SĀDARA-PARIYĒSĪṀ RESPECTFULLY-LISTEN pedagogical-imperative.

Arc-position

BG-14.9-10 stands at the doctrinal-CULMINATION of the BG-14.5-10 guṇa-binding doctrinal-block within adhyāya-14's prakṛti's guṇa-analytic. The chapter's argument now stands as: BG-14.1-4 = opening cosmogonic-block → BG-14.5 = three-guṇa introduction → BG-14.6 = SATTVA-binding → BG-14.7 = RAJAS-binding → BG-14.8 = TAMAS-binding → BG-14.9-10 = three-fold attachment-RECAP + dominance-ROTATION → BG-14.11-13 = three-guṇa symptom-catalog → BG-14.14-15 = three-guṇa-death-destinations → BG-14.16-18 = three-guṇa-phala-pattern → BG-14.19-27 = guṇātīta-doctrine + chapter-coda. The 500th-cluster-milestone coincides precisely with the foundational impermanence-statement of the three-strand prakṛti-analytic — a fitting structural-resonance.