Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Verse 11
When the light of knowledge illuminates all the senses of the body, it should be understood that the mode of goodness is most prevalent.
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Guna Traya Vibhaga Yoga - The Yoga of Understanding the Three Modes of Material Nature
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Verse 12
O best of the Bharata Dynasty, when the mode of passion is most predominant one is under the influence of greed, selfish activities, ambition, restlessness and hankering.
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Verse 13
O descendent of Kuru, by the influence of the mode of ignorance, then darkness, laziness, confusion and delusion are manifest.
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Verse 14
When an embodied being dies under the influence of the mode of goodness, he reaches the higher planets wherein those of great intellect reside.
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Verse 15
When one dies in the mode of passion, he is reborn amongst those who are attached to worldly activities. If one dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth again in the womb of unintelligent people.
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Verse 16
It has been said that the result of good deeds is purity, the results of passionate activities is misery, and the result of actions in ignorance is bewilderment.
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Verse 17
Goodness gives birth to knowledge, passion gives rise to greed and ignorance breeds illusion, confusion and a lack of knowledge.
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Verse 18
Those in goodness attain the higher realms, those in passion remain in the middle (the earth planet) and those in ignorance descend to the lower planes of life.
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Verse 19
When one perceives that there is no other active agent except the modes of nature, and he knows the Supreme, he attains My nature.
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 14 - Verse 20
By transcending these three modes that appear within the body, one becomes liberated from the miseries of birth, death, old age and other miseries. Then one tastes the nectar of immortality.
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