Chapter 14गुणत्रयविभागयोगःGunatraya Vibhaga Yoga

The highest knowledge and creation (14.1–14.4). The highest of all knowledge; knowing it, the sages reached the supreme perfection; those who attain likeness to Me are beyond creation and dissolution (14.1–14.2); the great Brahman (mahat-brahma) is the womb, I am the seed-giving father — all beings are one family (14.3–14.4).

The three gunas and bondage (14.5–14.9). Sattva, rajas and tamas bind the embodied one (14.5); sattva through attachment to happiness and knowledge (14.6); rajas through craving and attachment, and attachment to action (14.7); tamas through heedlessness, laziness and sleep (14.8); summary (14.9).

Dominance and signs (14.10–14.13). The gunas overpower one another (14.10); sattva = light in all the gates (14.11); rajas = greed, activity, restlessness (14.12); tamas = darkness, inertia, delusion (14.13).

Destination and fruit (14.14–14.18). At the time of death, one's course follows the dominant guna (14.14–14.15); the fruits — purity, suffering, ignorance (14.16); what they yield — knowledge, greed, delusion (14.17); upward, the middle, downward (14.18).

Beyond the gunas (14.19–14.27). The witness — the gunas alone are the doers (14.19); immortality while still living (14.20); Arjuna's three questions (14.21); the signs — neither aversion nor longing; guṇā vartanta (14.22–14.23); conduct — self-abiding, even-minded, equal (14.24–14.25); the means — unwavering devotion (14.26); I am the foundation of Brahman, of dharma and of happiness (14.27).