श्रीभगवानुवाच सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणा बुद्धेर्न चात्मन: । सत्त्वेनान्यतमौ हन्यात् सत्त्वं सत्त्वेन चैव हि ॥ १ ॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca sattvaṁ rajas tama iti guṇā buddher na cātmanaḥ sattvenānyatamau hanyāt sattvaṁ sattvena caiva hi
- śrī-bhagavān uvāca
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead said
- sattvam
- goodness
- rajaḥ
- passion
- tamaḥ
- ignorance
- iti
- thus known
- guṇāḥ
- the modes of material nature
- buddheḥ
- pertain to material intelligence
- na
- not
- ca
- also
- ātmanaḥ
- to the soul
- sattvena
- by the material mode of goodness
- anyatamau
- the other two (passion and ignorance)
- hanyāt
- may be destroyed
- sattvam
- the material mode of goodness
- sattvena
- by purified goodness
- ca
- also (may be destroyed)
- eva
- certainly
- hi
- indeed
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The three modes of material nature, namely goodness, passion and ignorance, pertain to material intelligence and not to the spirit soul. By development of material goodness one can conquer the modes of passion and ignorance, and by cultivation of transcendental goodness one may free oneself even from material goodness.