According to the sages, there is a very clear concept that the world is a play of the three gunas. The three gunas are Tamas, Rajas and Sattwa. Life is a combination of three gunas. The three gunas are continuously interacting although only one is overriding the other two. When sattva prevails, then rajas and tamas are suppressed.

Who is a Yogi? A yogi is a person, who is in control of the gunas. He is enabled to expel darkness, ignorance, passions ambitions, purity, and enlightenment. They come to him, when he beckons them.

A yogi is aware that Prakriti is the doer, and the senses are instruments of Prakriti. When one imagines that one is the doer, then one is bound by the laws of karma. Bhagwad Gita, 18:16. Now such being the case, the person of perverted intelligence, who looks upon his self, which is isolated as the agent, he sees not, owing to untrained understanding. There can be a change brought about by the practice of Yoga.

Neither agency nor actions does the Lord create for the world, nor union with the fruits of actions, it is nature that acts. – Bhagwad Gita, 5:14

The Yogi has given up all idea of agency. He treats the body as an instrument of God that is given to him for fulfillment of His purpose. He attributes all activities to the divine actor within and escapes from the bondage of karma. He is freed from the wheel of birth and death.

When the seer beholds no agent other than the gunas, knowing that which is higher than them, he attains to My being. – Bhagwad Gita, 14:19

Dear ones, become aware and detached through breath awareness. Be neutral and practice Atmabhava.

Extracted from Swami Satyananda Saraswati’s lectures.

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