Category Archives: Bondage
Cause of Bondage
Reference: Bhagavad Gita 14.5, 14.6, 14.7 & 14.8
The three gunas – Sattva, Rajas & Tamas – born out of nature are responsible for bondage.
Sattvaguna binds by creating attachment for wellbeing and attachment to knowledge.
Rajoguna binds by creating attachment to action.
Tamoguna binds by mindlessness, laziness and sleep.
Bondage – Nisargadatta Maharaj
![The cause of bliss is sought in the 'not--I' and thus the bondage begins. [Nisargadatta Maharaj]](https://i0.wp.com/vedanta.manishverma.site/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/09/Bondage-%E2%80%93-Nisargadatta-Maharaj.png?ssl=1 "Bondage - Nisargadatta Maharaj")
Ignorance Creates Bondage
Being deluded by ignorance, one mistakes a thing for what it is not. In the absence of discrimination, the snake is mistaken for a rope, and great danger befalls one who seizes it through this false notion. So listen, my friend, it is mistaking the not-Self for the Self (the unreal for the Real) that creates bondage. [Vivekachudamani, Translated by Acharya Pranipata Chaitanya]