Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
25. And action undertaken from delusion without regard to one’s capacity or consequences (such as) death or injury is said to be of tamas quality. That is tamasic action, which is the sink of slander and because of which the prohibitions have fulfilled their life’s purpose. The result of such action does not become perceptible, like the line drawn on the water. Such action is of no avail like the churning of butter-milk, the blowing of ashes, or the grinding of the sand in an oil-mill or winnowing the chaff or piercing the space, or placing a net to catch the wind (611-615). Otherwise such actions, which are performed by wearing out the valuable human body and by spending money, devastates the world. Just as when the lotuses are dragged with a thorny noose, the noose becomes worn out, but the lotuses also get torn, or just as the moth attacks the lamp with hatred and with the loss of its life extinguishes the lamp and keeps the house in darkness, in the same way the tamasic karma not only proves injurious to the doer and his body, but also causes harm to others. The fly enters the belly of a person and dies, but it causes him agony by making him vomit: the tamasic action reminds one of this action of the fly (616-620). |
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