Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-14
The Three Qualities
Just as darkness flees from light, so prohibited actions dare not stand before the senses (206-210). His intellect delves into all lores, as the river is flooded in the rainy season. Just as the light of the full moon floods the whole sky, so all knowledge spreads in his mind. All his desires wane, his predilection for activity ebbs and his mind abhors sensuous pleasures. If death intervenes when his sattva is on the increase he takes birth in an excellent body, as though a person has got a bumper harvest and has received as guests his forefathers on the festive occasion of their death anniversary (shraddha) day (211-215). If there be great riches in the house with generosity and courage of mind to match, would not such a person receive plaudits in this world and attain to heaven? If such a person who has a pure and spotless conduct, with his sattva on the increase dies, what would be his destination? If such a person leaves his body, the best seat of sensuous enjoyments, being endowed with the sattva, he becomes sattva incarnate and takes his next birth among men of knowledge. O archer, if a crowned king goes to the forest, does he suffer any want there (216-220)? |
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