Verse 14.9-10

Verse 14.9: “The Sattva causes addiction to comfort; the Rajas, O Scion of Bharata, to action; but the Tamas, obscuring knowledge, causes in addition addiction to heedlessness.

Verse 14.10: “Overcoming Rajas and Tamas, the Sattva prevails, O Scion of Bharata; the Rajas (by overcoming) Sattva and Tamas: The Tamas (by overcoming) Sattva as well as Rajas. (196)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

When the bile strengthens itself by pushing aside phlegm and wind (kaphavāta) it makes hot (inflames) the entire body; or when at the end of hot and monsoon seasons, cold season sets in, the sky also is full of cold, or when the dreamy and wakeful states disappear, there only remains the deep slumber, and the mental attitude takes on the same hue, in that way when the Sattva Guna overpowers the Rajas and Tamas Gunas, (then) the soul says, “how happy am I”! Similarly when the Tamas gets strong overpowering the Sattva and Rajas Gunas, it naturally causes the being to commit errors. In that same way with the overpowering of Sattva and Tamas Gunas, the Rajas gets strong and then the embodied soul-the king of the body-feels that nothing is more desirable than activism. I have discoursed, in three verses, on the special characteristics of the three Gunas, you do now hear attentively about the symptoms of the growth of the Sattva and others (Gunas).