By Sivarama Swami

1. ITEM REF IGNORANCE PASSION GOODNESS
Symptoms Bg 14.6-9
S.B. 11.25.9
- delusion of all embodied living beings
- anger
- unlimited desirous longings
- lust
- Purer than others, illuminating and frees one from
sinful reaction
- self control
Conditioning B.G. 14.6-9 - madness, indolence, sleep - material fruitive action - sense of happiness and knowledge
Increase in Bg 14.6-9 - darkness, inertia, madness + illusion manifest - great attachment, fruitive activity, intense
endeavour, uncontrollable desire and
hankering develop
- gates of body illuminating by knowledge
Social order Bg 18.41-44 - sudras: labour and service to others - ksatriyas: heroism, power, determination,
resourcefulness, courage in battle,
generosity and leadership
- vaisyas: aiming cow protection and
business
- brahmana’s, peacefulness, self-control, austerity,
purity, tolerance, honesty, knowledge, wisdom +
religiousness
Next life and
abode
Bg
14.14,15,18
S.B 11
25.21-22
- takes birth in animal kingdom, go down to
hellish worlds
- falls into lower and lower births
- go to hell
- takes birth among those engaged in fruitive
activities
- transmigrates through human body
- world of humans
- purer, higher planets of great sages planets
- higher and higher positions, heavenly planets
Results of
action
Bg 14.16-17 - foolishness, madness and illusion - misery, greed develops - result of pious action is pure, knowledge develops
Development Bg 14.17 - foolishness, madness and illusion - greed - knowledge
Worship or
Faith
Bg 17.4
S.B. 11.25-27
- ghosts and spirits
- faith in irreligious activities
- demons
- faith rooted in fruitive work
- worship demigods
- directed towards spiritual life (faith)
Food Bg 17.8-10
S.B. 11.25-28
- eaten 3hrs after preparation, tasteless,
decomposed, putrid, consisting of remnants +
untouchable things
- unclean and causes distress
- too bitter, too salty, hot pungent, dry +
burning. Cause distress, misery, and
disease
- gives immediate pleasure to senses
- increase duration of life, purify existence, give
strength, health, happiness, and satisfaction, are
juicy, fatty, wholesome, and pleasing to heart
- wholesome, pure, obtained without difficulty
Sacrifice Bg 17.11-13 - without regard of sastra, without distributing
prasad, without chanting Vedic hymns, without
daksina + faith
- for material benefit, for pride - performed according to direction of sastra, as
duty, by those desiring no reward
Austerity Bg 17.17-19 - out of foolishness, with self-torture or to
destroy or injure others
- out of pride for respect, honour and
worship. Neither stable nor permanent
- 3 fold austerity performed with faith by men not
expecting benefit + for sake of Supreme
Charity Bg 17.20-22 - impure place, improper time, to unworthy
person or without proper attention & respect
- expectation of some return, a desire for
fruitive result, in a grudging mood
- given out of duty without expecting return, at
proper time & place, to a worthy person
Renunciation Bg 18.7-9 - giving up prescribed duties because of illusion - gives up duties as troublesome out of fear
of bodily comfort
- performs duties because it ought to be done, free
from material association & attachment fruit
Knowledge Bg 18.20-22
S.B. 11.25-24
- attached to one work, without knowledge of
truth & is very meagre / foolish, materialistic
- in every body a different type of entity
- based on duality
- one undivided nature seen in all entities though
they are divided into innumerable forms
- absolute knowledge

2. Action or Work Bg 18.23-25
S.B. 11.25.23
- in illusion, disregarding sastra, without concern
for future bondage or for violence & distress to
others
- impelled by violence + envy
- great effort, seeking to gratify desires
enacted from false ego.
- desire to enjoy results
- is regulated, performed without attachment,
without love or hatred or desire for future results
- as offering to hold without consideration of fruit
Worker Bg 18.26-28 - work against sastra, materialistic, obstinate,
cheating + expert in insulting others, lazy,
morose + procrastinating
- forgotting to tell right from wrong
- attached to work, its fruits, desiring to enjoy
fruit, greedy, envious, impure, moved by
joy + sorrow
- blinded by personal desire
- performs duty without association of modes/false
ego, with determination, enthusiasm, not wavering
in success or failure
- free of attachment
Understanding Bg 18.30-32 - considers irreligion / religion + vice versa,
under illusion + darkness, strives in wrong
direction
- cannot distinguish between religion &
irreligion, action to be done or not
- knows what ought to be done or not, feared & not,
what is binding or liberating
Determination Bg 18.33-35 - cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness,
moroseness + illusion
- holds fruitive results in religion, economic
development is sense gratification
- unbreakable, sustained with yoga practice,
controls mind, life and senses
Happiness Bg 18.37-39
S.B. 11.25.29
- blind to self-realisation, delusion beginning /
end, from sleep, laziness and illusion
- delusion & degradation
- from contact with senses + objects, begins
with nectar & ends in poison
- based on sense gratification
- beginning like poison, end like nectar & awakens
one to self-realisation
- derived from self
Residence S.B. 11.25.25 - gambling house - in a town - in the forest
Future
symptoms
S.B. 11.
25.
13-15
- foolish, dull, falls into lamentation and illusion,
sleeps too much, indulges in false hopes,
displays violence
- causes attachment, separatism + activity,
works hard, seek prestige & fortune,
experiencing anxiety + struggle
- person becomes endowed with happiness,
- virtue, knowledge other good qualities
Intellect, mind,
senses effected
S.B. 11
25
16-18
- higher awareness disappears, unable
concentrate attention, his mind ruined,
manifests ignorance + depression
- distinction of intelligence due to activity.
Inability of sense to disentangle from
objects, unhealthy condition of organs,
perplexity in mind.
- senses detached from matter, experiences
fearlessness in material body + detachment from
mind
Sleep &
consciousness
S.B. 11.25-20 - deep, dreamless sleep - sleep with dreaming - alert wakefulness
Qualities S.B. 11
25.2-5
- anger, speaking without sastra authority,
hatred, parasite, hypocrisy, fatigue, quarell,
lamentation, delusion, unhappiness,
depression, sleep, false expects, fear +
laziness
- material desire, great endeavour, audacity,
dissatisfaction even in gain, false pride,
praying for material advancement, wants
things better than others, sense
gratification, eager to fight, like hearing
praise, ridicule others, proud of prowess,
justifying actions by strength
- mind +sense control, tolerance, discrimination,
sticking to one's prescribed duty, truthfulness,
mercy, generosity, renunciation of sense
gratification, embarrassed of improper actions,
charity, simplicity, humility, self satisfaction