Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-14
The Three Qualities
11. When in all the gates of the body, the light of knowledge shines forth, then one should know that sattva has increased. 12. Greed, activity, enterprise, restlessness and craving, these arise when rajas is on the increase, O best of the Bharatas (Arjuna). 13. Dullness and inaction as also negligence and delusion, these arise when tamas increases, O Joy of the Kurus (Arjuna). 14. If a person meets his death when sattva prevails, then he attains the spotless worlds of those who know the highest (entities). 15. Meeting his death in rajas, he is born among those attached to work, and the one absorbed in tamas is born in the dull species.When the sattva increases in the body, overpowering rajas and tamas, then the following are the characteristics of the embodied Self. Just as in the spring the lotus blooms and spreads its fragrance all around, so the light of his knowledge spreads outside, overflowing the interior (201-205). The discrimination remains watchful in all the sense organs and even the hands and feet acquire vision. Just as the swan decides which is milk and which is water, so the senses themselves decide what is proper and what is improper and sense-restraint becomes their servant. The ears avoid hearing what they ought not to hear, the eyes avoid seeing what they ought not to see, their tongue avoids speaking what ought not to be uttered. |
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