The Hare Krishna Movement

I find it interesting, how one morning, I will wake up and find it very easy and pleasing to chant Hare Krishna and preform my devotional activities, and the next day I find it difficult? I realized that it due to the influence of the three modes of material nature.

…Everyone should know that a living entity is eternally a servant and that unless one serves Krsna one has to serve illusion in different varieties of the three modes of material nature. (from Preface to Bhagavad-gita As It Is)

…In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly explained that there are three kinds of activities according to the different modes of nature: the activities of goodness, of passion and of ignorance. (from Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is)

The three modes of material nature is an important topic, so much so , that there is an entire chapter dedicated to it in the Bhagavad-gita.

Material nature consists of the three modes—goodness, passion and ignorance. When the living entity comes in contact with nature, he becomes conditioned by these modes. (Bg. 14.5)

PURPORT

The living entity, because he is transcendental, has nothing to do with this material nature. Still, because he has become conditioned by the material world, he is acting under the spell of the three modes of material nature. Because living entities have different kinds of bodies, in terms of the different aspects of nature, they are induced to act according to that nature. This is the cause of the varieties of happiness and distress.

This tells me, that I am not yet transcendental to the three modes, and I still have plenty of work to do.

We share with you a description of the three modes as outlined in chapter 14 of the Bhagavad-gita.