Śabda No. 6
Sāttvik food. Tāmasik mood.
“The Guṇas of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas… bind the immutable Self in the body.”
Sāttvik food, tāmasik mood. Words from your grandmother’s kitchen come from the three guṇas the Gītā names: sattva, rajas and tamas.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः।निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्।।
sattvaṁ rajas tama iti guṇāḥ prakṛti-sambhavāḥ nibadhnanti mahā-bāho dehe dehinam avyayam
The Gunas of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas arise from Prakrti and bind the immutable Self in the body, O Arjuna.
14.5 is verse 528 of 700, and verse 5 of 27 in chapter 14.
Sattva, in any form, appears in 18 verses of the 700, first at 2.45 and last at 18.40.
Tamas, as quality or as darkness, in any form, appears in 14 verses of the 700, first at 4.36 and last at 18.32.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Chapter 14 is the Gītā's chapter on the three qualities. 14.4 says that whatever forms are born in any womb, Prakṛti is their great womb and Kṛṣṇa is the sowing father. 14.5 then names the three guṇas that arise from Prakṛti, sattva, rajas and tamas, and says they bind the unchanging self in the body. 14.6 describes the first: sattva, being free of impurity, is luminous and free from sickness, and it binds through attachment to pleasure and to knowledge. So even the best of the three is described as binding. The story hears these words in a grandmother's kitchen, in sāttvik food and tāmasik mood. In the Gītā they are three qualities that arise from Prakṛti and act on the one in the body. See chapter 14 and what the Gītā says about knowledge.