BG 9.

10
maydhyakea prakti
syate sa-carcaram
hetunnena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate

This material nature, which is one of My energies, is
working under My direction, O son of Kunti, producing
all moving and nonmoving beings. Under its rule this
manifestation is created and annihilated again and
again.
The Three Modes of Material Nature


SATTVA GUNA RAJ O GUNA TAMO GUNA
( Goodness ) ( Passion ) ( Ignorance )

- Knowledge - Unlimited desires - Madness

- Free from sins - Fruitive activity - Laziness

- Conditioned by the - Attraction between - Sleep
sense of happiness man and woman - Intoxication

Messages of Water
Masaru Emoto
Hado Institute (IHM) Tokyo

Hado
(pronounced hadou to rhyme with shadow) =
wave/vibration/energy
Dr. Masaru Emoto
Distilled Water Crystal
Water Crystal Exposed to
Heavy Metal Music
Water Crystal Exposed to the
Song Entitled, Silent Night
"Arigatou
Thank you in
Japanese
Water that has been exposed to the words
You make me sick. I will kill you. typed
on a paper pasted on the bottle. (Page 94)
Water crystal of Fujiwara Dam
before offering a prayer.
(Page 135)
Water crystal of Fujiwara Dam
after offering a prayer.
(Page 137)

After blessing
by 500 people
The effect of
the word Love
Water blessed with
Love and Gratitude
Bach's "Air for the G
String". (Page 77)

Bach's "Goldberg
Variations". (Page 78)

Chopin's
"Farewell Song".
(Page 79)
Beethovens music
Pastoral
Mozart
Kawachi Folk Dance
Song. (Page 83)
Distilled water labeled "Do It".

Distilled water labeled "Let's Do It".
Crystal of water that has been exposed to playing of Healing
Music "Hado". (Page 80)

IGNORANCE PASSION GOODNESS PURE GOODNESS
General
Characteristics
Foolishness, madness,
illusion, inertia, indolence
and sleep.
Unlimited,
uncontrollable desires
and longings, intense
endeavor, greed,
bondage to material
fruitive activities and
attachment to the fruits
of action.
Relative purity,
illumination, happiness
and freedom from
sinful reactions.
Conducive to real
knowledge.
Complete, unmotivated,
unfailing devotion to the
Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Absolute
knowledge, purity,
illumination, happiness
and freedom from sinful
reactions.
Destination
After death
The hellish worlds and the
animal kingdom.
The association of
fruitive workers on the
earthly planets.
The heavenly planets. The eternal abode of the
Supreme Lord.
Objects of
worship
Ghosts and spirits. Demons, powerful
men and self-
proclaimed imitation
gods.
The demigods and the
impersonal conception
of God.
The Supreme Personality
of Godhead.
Food
Tasteless, stale, putrid,
decomposed, unclean.
Cooked more than three
hours before being eaten.
Remnants of the meals of
others. Meat, fish, eggs and
liquor.
Too bitter, sour, salty,
pungent, rich, dry or
hot. Causes pain,
distress and disease.
Increases longevity,
purifies ones
existence, gives
strength, health,
happiness and
satisfaction.
Nourishing, sweet,
juicy, fattening and
palatable. Milk
products, grains, sugar,
fruit and vegetables.
Frees one from past sinful
reactions and protects one
from future
contamination. Invokes
ones dormant Krsna
consciousness. Prepared
by devotees according to
scriptural injunctions and
offered with devotion to
the Supreme Lord.
Remnants of the meal of a
saintly person or the
spiritual master.
IGNORANCE PASSION GOODNESS PURE GOODNESS
Sacrifice
Performed faithlessly, in
defiance of scriptural
injunctions, and with no
spiritual food distributed,
no hymns chanted and no
remuneration made to the
priests.
Performed proudly,
ostentatiously, for the
sake of some material
end or benefit (such as
elevation to the
heavenly kingdom).
Performed as a duty,
according to scriptural
regulations, and with no
expectation of reward.
Performed according to
scriptural injunctions, and
under the guidance of the
spiritual master, to please
the Supreme Lord.
Austerity
Performed foolishly by
means of obstinate self-
torture or to destroy or
injure others.
Performed
ostentatiously to gain
respect, honor and
reverence. Brings only
unstable, temporary
results.
Performed with faith and
without desires for ones
material benefit.
Bodily Austerities:
cleanliness, simplicity,
celibacy, nonviolence,
offering of respect to the
demigods, brahmanas,
spiritual master, and superiors
like the mother and father.
Austerities of Speech:
speaking beneficially,
truthfully and inoffensively
and with reference to Vedic
authorities.
Mental Austerities: Serenity,
simplicity, gravity, self-
control and purity of thought,
detaching the mind from sense
gratification.
Performed with faith and
with a desire to satisfy the
Supreme Personality of
Godhead.
Charity
Performed at an improper
time and place, to an
unworthy person like a
gambler or drunkard, or
contemptuously, without
respect.
Performed to get
something in return,
with a desire for
fruitive results, or in a
grudging mood.
Performed as a duty, at the
proper time and place, to a
worthy person and with no
expectation of material
returns.
Performed only to satisfy
the Supreme Lord.
IGNORANCE PASSION GOODNESS PURE GOODNESS
Renunciation
Consists of giving up ones
prescribed duties because of
illusion.
Consists of giving up ones
prescribed duties because of
fear or because they appear
troublesome.
Consists of performing
ones prescribed duties
because they ought to
be done and
abandoning attachment
to the fruits of ones
work.
Consists of performing
ones prescribed duties in
Krsna consciousness and
employing the fruits of
ones work for the
satisfaction of Krsna.
Knowledge
Very meager. Unrelated to
the Absolute Truth. Breeds
attachment to one kind of
work as all in all. Concerned
only with bodily comforts,
eating, sleeping, mating and
defending, and so resembles
the knowledge of animals.
Gives rise to speculative
doctrines and theories
through which one sees the
body as the self and
consciousness as a
temporary by-product of the
body. Rules out the
existence of the eternal
individual soul within.
Gives rise to a vision
of one undivided
spiritual force within
the bodies of all living
beings.
Enables one to see all
living beings as eternal,
individual, spiritual
servants of the supreme
living being, Krnsa.
Action
Irresponsible, violent,
distressing to others.
Performed in illusion,
without consideration of
scriptural injunctions or
future bondage and
consequences. Results in
further foolishness.
Performed under false
egoism, and with great
effort, to satisfy ones
desires to enjoy the fruits of
his work. Results in distress.
Performed under
scriptural regulations,
as a matter of duty,
without attachment,
and without love and
hate, by one who
renounces the fruits of
his actions. Results in
purification.
Performed solely for the
satisfaction of Krsna and
the spiritual master.
Worker
Disregards scriptural
injunctions. Materialistic,
obstinate, cheating, lazy,
morose, procrastinating and
expert in insulting others.
Attached to the fruits of his
work and intent on enjoying
them. Greedy, envious and
unclean. Entangled by
happiness when successful
and distress when
unsuccessful. Heedless of
whether his work is pure or
impure.
Free from material
attachments, pride and
false ego. Enthusiastic,
resolute and unswayed
by success or failure.
Unconditionally serves
Krsna and the spiritual
master under any and all
circumstances.
IGNORANCE PASSION GOODNESS PURE GOODNESS
Understanding
Considers irreligion to be
religion, and religion to b
irreligion. Strives always
in the wrong direction.
Misguided, perverse
and imperfect. Cannot
distinguish between
religion and irreligion,
truth and untruth and
what should and
should not be done.
Intelligently
discriminates, under
scriptural direction,
between what is to be
done and not to be
done, what is to be
feared and not to be
feared, and what is
liberating and what is
binding.
Always perfectly
considers Krsna through
personal realization,
confirmed by the
scriptures and the
spiritual master.
Determination
Cannot go beyond
daydreaming, fearfulness,
lamentation, morseness and
illusion.
Fixed upon securing
the fruits of religion,
economic development
and sense gratification.
Practically
unbreakable. Sustained
with steadfastness by
yoga, which controls
the activities of the
mind, life and senses.
Fully engaged in Krsna
consciousness and never
deviated by anything else.
Happiness
Blind to self-realization,
delusion from beginning to
end. Comes about from
sleep, laziness and illusion.
Derived from contact
of the senses with their
objects. Seems like
nectar at first but
poison at the end.
Epitomized by sexual
enjoyment.
Compared to poison in
the beginning but
nectar at the end
because it involves
control of the mind
and senses but
awakens one to self-
realization.
Derived from service
rendered by a purified
soul to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead in
an eternal loving
relationship. Ever-
increasing ecstasy.
Unparalleled by any
mundane experience or
emotion.
BG 13.22
purua prakti-stho hi
bhukte prakti-jn gun
kraa gua-sagosya
sad-asad-yoni-janmasu
The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of
life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his
association with that material nature. Thus he meets with
good and evil among various species.
BG 7.14
daiv hy e gua-may
mama my duratyay
mm eva ye prapadyante
mym et taranti te

This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult
to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it.
BG 14.26
Mam ca yo avyabhicarena
Bhakti yogena sevate
Sagunan samatityatan
Brahma bhuyaya kalpate
Who ever engages in full devotional service, unfailing in all circumstances, at once
transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of transcendence

BG 14.27
Brahmano hi pratistaham
Amrutasyavyayasya ca
Sasvatasya ca dharmasya
Sukhaikantikasya ca
I am the basis of brahman, which is immortal, imperishable
and eternal and is the constitutional position of happiness