Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
Release
27. An agent, full of passion and desirous of the fruit of actions, greedy, destructive and unclean and subject to joy and gloom, is said to be endowed with rajas quality. Just as a dung-hill is a place where all the village rubbish accumulates or the funeral ground is the place wherein all inauspicious things gather (646-650), so the rajasic agent is the place, where all desires and sins in the world wash their feet. Such a person undertakes only such works as yield the desired fruit. He is loth to spend even a cowrie out of his earnings, to preserve which, he is even prepared to risk his life. As a heron lies in wait to catch the fish, he is diligent in preserving his hoard, but is ever ready to pocket the property of others. If a person goes near a jujube tree, he is caught by its thorns, his body gets scratched if he tries to disentangle himself and his tongue smarts if he eats its fruit (651-655). Likewise he gives pain to others with his body, speech and mind, is indifferent to doing good to others and secures his own self-interest. He is not capable of completing the work undertaken, but he does not take dislike to action in any form. He is devoid of purity internally and externally, like the thorn-apple which has intoxicating pulp inside and thorns outside. If he comes into possession of the fruit of his action, he becomes overjoyed and mocks the world. On the other hand, if the work undertaken does not bear fruit, he grieves and rejects it disdainfully (656-660). Know for certain, that whoever performs actions in this manner is a rajasic agent. Now I shall tell you clearly the nature of the tamasic agent, who is a mine of bad deeds. |
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