Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
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28. An agent who is undisciplined, vulgar and stubborn, deceitful, dishonest and indolent, morose and procrastinating, is said to be endowed with tamas quality. The fire does not know how things coming into contact with it burn, or a weapon does not realise how its sharp edge takes the life of another or the poison is not aware how fatal it is to others. Likewise a tamasic agent readily undertakes wicked deeds, which tend to harm himself and others (661-665). He is not conscious about the kind of actions he is performing like a whirlwind blowing helter-skelter. So also, O Arjuna, his actions do not harmonise with his motives; and so the tamasic agent is not outmatched by a person of unsound mind. He lives in the enjoyment of sensuous pleasures, like the ticks which suck the blood from the scrotum of a bull. As the child does not require any occasion to laugh or cry, so he is wayward in his behaviour. Since he is completely under the sway of prakriti, he becomes contented and puffed up with his wicked deeds like a dung-hill, which swells with rubbish (666-670). He does not bow down his head even before God and he looks askance at a hill, due to pride. His mind is always deceitful and his behaviour furtive, while his look is like that of a harlot, whose sole aim is to rob a person of all his wealth. His body, in fact, is full of deceit and his entire life is like a gambling den. Know that his appearance, is like the habitation of a criminal tribesman, and so one should not cross his path. |
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