Bhagavad Gita : Chapter 14

Again I shall describe to you that knowledge above all knowledge, with which the sages have attained the highest of states.

Those who have become like ME, with the aid of this knowledge, will not be born at the time of creation, nor will they suffer at the dissolution of the world.

The great Nature is the womb, in which I place the seed from which is the birth of all beings. Arjuna, whatever forms come from different wombs, Nature is the common womb, and I the seed.-providing father.

The immortal soul is bound in the body by the natural qualities, satva, rajas, and tamas.Among them, satva is pure and shining, and does no harm. It binds through attachment to happiness and to knowledge.

Rajas is, it is to be understood, coloured and born out of greed, and it binds through attachment to action. Tamas is born out of ignorance, and is soporific, and binds through proneness to mistakes, laziness and sleepiness.

Satva inclines to happiness, rajas to activeness, and tamas, clouding the intelligence, to mistakes. Satva, overcoming the other two, comes forth sometimes; rajas sometimes overcomes the other two; and similarly tamas the others.

When in all the sense organs in the body, intelligence shines, then you know that satva is dominant; When rajas is dominant, come ambition, restlessness,venturesomeness,and inability to stop work. And when tamas is dominant, come dullness, inertia, mistakes, and confusion.

Satvic persons go up, rajasic remain where they are, and the tamasic, at the bottom of these qualities, go down.When the self understands that all actions are done by these Natural properties alone, and realizes the One beyond the senses, then he indeed becomes ME.

It is when the self rises beyond these properties belonging only to the body, that he becomes free of the miseries of birth, death and old age, and attains immortality.

Arjuna:
By what signs can can such a person beyond these natural laws be recognized? How will he conduct himself? And how can one overcome these laws?

Krishna:
He who has gone beyond these laws, is not upset when any of these,satvic, rajasic or tamasic appear, and never long for them when they disappear. As if indifferent, he is not shaken by them; remains firm knowing that this is only the operation of the laws of nature.

He remains same in happiness and sorrow, self-confident, same towards log, stone and gold, same in pain and pleasure, same to praise or censure, mature, same in honour and dishonour, and impartial to friend and foe, and not interested in new ventures.

He who serves ME with undiluted devotion, overcomes these natural laws and attains immortality. I am at the base of the immortal undecaying Brahma, of the eternal laws of Duty, and of the highest happiness.