Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
Knowledge which is hollow and lack-lustre, they call tamasic knowledge. Now it is called knowledge for this reason: We say that one has broad eyes if one is born blind or that one has fine ears if one is deaf or that wine is a drink. In that way, the term knowledge applied to tamasic knowledge is a misnomer (576-580). In short, we should not call it knowledge, but darkness (tamas). O best among the hearers, I have thus explained to you, the three kinds of knowledge based on the gunas along with their characteristics. O archer, all actions are performed by the agent, in the light of these three kinds of knowledge. Like water flowing in currents, the action is also distributed in three parts, and a single action becomes three-fold because of the threefold knowledge, I shall tell you first, the characteristics of sattvic action (581-585). |
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