Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-16
The Divine and Demoniacal Natures
Now here are six faults, twice the number three (251-255) and since the demoniacal endowment is founded on these six faults, it never lacks anything. As if there should be a conjunction of evil planets in one sign of the zodiac or sins should pursue a slanderer, or all the ailments should attack a person, when he is at the point of death or there should be a conjunction of evil planets, at an inauspicious time, or one trusting a thief should get into his clutches, or an exhausted person should fall into a great flood, so these six faults are disastrous to a person. These six faults pounce upon a person in the same way as a seven-stinged scorpion should sting a dying sheep (256-260). Even if a dribble of these six faults falls upon a person who has taken to the path of liberation, he sinks in worldly affairs and, descending the steps of vile births, he reaches the bottom and takes birth into the species of the immovable (such as trees and stones). In short, these six faults combine to enhance the demoniacal endowment. In this way, I have explained to you the different characteristics of these two endowments which are famous in the world. |
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