What does that person look like?

kairliṅgaistrīnguṇānetānatīto bhavati prabhokimācāraḥ kathaṃ caitāṃstrīnguṇānativartate

By what signs, Lord, is one known who has gone beyond the three gunas? How do they live, and how do they go beyond them?

What it means

Arjuna asks a practical question again. How would I recognise someone who has gone beyond the three gunas? How do they behave? And how did they get there? He wants to see the teaching walking around in a real person.

The story

Arjuna asked the same kind of question in chapter two, about the person of steady wisdom. He learns best through examples, and Krishna patiently gives him one.

In your life

Remember the calmest, freest person you know. Write down three things they do differently. Choose one to try this week.