☀️WHY BEING SATTVIC IS EMPHASIZED?☀️
Question: But isn’t the idea to lead a sāttvic life?
SWAMIJI: Yes.
Question: So what is the purpose of leading a sāttvic life?
SWAMIJI: Sāttvic life? To discard these rajoguṇa and tamoguṇa. When this rajoguṇa and tamoguṇa, you don’t allow your mood of sāttvic activity to step in rajoguṇa or step in tamoguṇa at all, then what happens? You’ll rise above sāttvic guṇa. You have to maintain that sāttvaguṇa for the time being so that you cross that sāttvaguṇa. The avenue for crossing the cycle of guṇa is through sāttvaguṇa. It is not through rajoguṇa, it is not through tamoguṇa. This cycle, it has got three openings: one opening is sāttvoguṇa, another is rajoguṇa, and another is tamoguṇa. By this opening [of rajoguṇa], you will fall in the pit. By this opening [of tamoguṇa], you will fall in the pit. By this opening [of sāttvaguṇa], you will rise in the cycle of guṇātīta, above the guṇas. So, masters have preferred to maintain sāttvaguṇa all the time.
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Question: But isn’t the idea to lead a sāttvic life?
SWAMIJI: Yes.
Question: So what is the purpose of leading a sāttvic life?
SWAMIJI: Sāttvic life? To discard these rajoguṇa and tamoguṇa. When this rajoguṇa and tamoguṇa, you don’t allow your mood of sāttvic activity to step in rajoguṇa or step in tamoguṇa at all, then what happens? You’ll rise above sāttvic guṇa. You have to maintain that sāttvaguṇa for the time being so that you cross that sāttvaguṇa. The avenue for crossing the cycle of guṇa is through sāttvaguṇa. It is not through rajoguṇa, it is not through tamoguṇa. This cycle, it has got three openings: one opening is sāttvoguṇa, another is rajoguṇa, and another is tamoguṇa. By this opening [of rajoguṇa], you will fall in the pit. By this opening [of tamoguṇa], you will fall in the pit. By this opening [of sāttvaguṇa], you will rise in the cycle of guṇātīta, above the guṇas. So, masters have preferred to maintain sāttvaguṇa all the time.
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