In the Bhagavad gita verse 14.6, what does ‘being conditioned by a sense of happiness and knowledge mean’?

From: Jugal

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Question from Jugal Prabhu. With reference to Bhagavad Gita verse 14.6. What does being conditioned by a sense of happiness and knowledge mean? Answer. It means that one feels comfortable.
One feels that my present condition is fine. And this feeling of comfort and complacency is created by the knowledge and happiness that result from the mode of goodness. The characteristic of the mode of goodness.
So people who are in the mode of goodness are relatively intellectuals. More intellectual than others. And this capacity to have greater knowledge than others makes them feel superior to others.
And because they feel that they are better situated than others they feel that there is no need to improve further. And moreover to be situated in goodness also requires some punya. So punya also means that the miseries of material existence are lesser for them.
And because the miseries of material existence are lesser they also feel relatively comfortable and they are not driven so much by material desires, craving for this and craving for that as others in the mode of passion. So because of this those in the mode of goodness don’t feel the need to rise higher in life. They feel that I am comfortably situated over here and this is how the mode of goodness traps them by making them stay stuck due to the feeling of knowledge and happiness.
And not strive for greater spiritual advancement by practicing spirituality in general and by practicing devotional service in particular. So the mode of goodness is like the airport and devotional service is like the airplane. So those who are in the mode of goodness are relatively better situated to take off in the airplane but they have to board the airplane.
If instead of boarding the airplane they just decide to sit and make a house in the airport for themselves they are unfortunate. But the mode of goodness doesn’t induce people to do that. Just cultivate knowledge just feel happy because of being superior to others relatively speaking and not strive for anything else.
That is the meaning of being conditioned by a sense of knowledge and happiness.