Verse 14.18

Verse 14.18: “An upward urge have those that abide in Sattva; the Rajas-dominated remain in between: (while), swayed by the working of the lowest Guna, the Tamas-dominated went down (and down) (271)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Those that conduct themselves in the Sattvic way, assuredly become the kings of the Heaven after abandoning their body: similarly those living and then dying in Rajas Guna get born in the human order in this mortal world, where they have to take on one and the same plate, a meal consisting of cooked mixture of rice and pulse in the form of the mixture of pleasure and pain and from where death, which lies in the way, does not move away. Those that grow in Tamas and get out of the enjoyment-enduring body while the Tamas dominates, they attain the Tamas and become the possessors of the Charter of the land of Hell. In this way, has been made clear to you, with reasons, Oh Son of Pandu, the relative connection, the three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas and Tamas) bear towards the supremacy of Brahman. Although Supreme Brahman abides in its own aspect (without any change), yet it of itself acts as the respective occasion requires, according to the aspects of the three Gunas. One becomes a king in a dream and then sees advancing the hostile army, and lastly wins victory or sustains defeat; it is (that) one and the same person who passes through all these stages. In that way, the respective high, middle and inferior qualities of the three Gunas that become apparent, appear so only outwardly; otherwise the aspect of the Supreme is all firm and pure, devoid of all distinction and variegated perspective.