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Amazon.com   p. 308   The Blessed Lord said:  1. Again shall I
tell thee that supreme knowledge which is above all knowledge,
having known which all the Munis have attained to high
perfection after this life. 1  p. 309  2. They who having
devoted themselves to this knowledge, have attained to My Being,
are neither born at the time of creation, nor are they troubled
at the time of dissolution.  3. My womb is the great Prakriti;
in that I place the germ; from thence, O descendant of Bharata,
is the birth of all beings. 3  p. 310  4. Whatever forms are
produced, O son of Kunti, in all the wombs, the great Prakriti
is their womb, and I the seed-giving Father.  5. Sattva, Rajas,
and Tamas,—these Gunas, O mighty-armed, born of Prakriti, bind
fast in the body the indestructible embodied one. 5  p. 311  6.
Of these Sattva, from its stainlessness luminous and free from
evil, binds, O sinless one, by attachment to happiness, and by
attachment to knowledge.