September 13,2013.Day 279. BHAGAVAD GITA - As It Is.Original by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. Chapter 7.TEXT :12

Chapter 7. Knowledge of the Absolute

TEXT 12

ye caiva sattvika bhava 
rajasas tamasas ca ye 
matta eveti tan viddhi 
na tv aham tesu te mayi

SYNONYMS

ye--all those; ca--and; eva--certainly; sattvikah--in goodness;bhavah--states of being; rajasah--mode of passion; tamasah--mode of ignorance; ca--also; ye--although; mattah--from Me; eva--certainly; iti--thus; tan--those; viddhi--try to know; na--not; tu--but; aham--I; tesu--in those; te--they; mayi--unto Me.

TRANSLATION

All states of being--be they of goodness, passion or ignorance--are manifested by My energy. I am, in one sense, everything--but I am independent. I am not under the modes of this material nature.

PURPORT

All material activities in the world are being conducted under the three modes of material nature. Although these material modes of nature are emanations from the Supreme Lord, Krsna, He is not subject to them. For instance, under the state laws one may be punished, but the king, the lawmaker, is not subject to that law. Similarly, all the modes of material nature--goodness, passion and ignorance--are emanations from the Supreme Lord Krsna, but Krsna is not subject to material nature. Therefore He is nirguna, which means that these gunas, or modes, although issuing from Him, do not affect Him. That is one of the special characteristics of Bhagavan, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead.