Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
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32. That which, obscured by darkness, mistakes the wrong to be right, and all matters in a perverted manner, that intellect, O Partha, arises from tamas quality. Just as a thief considers a highway as a by-way, or the demon’s day begins with night-fall, or an unlucky person foregoes treasure found by him as a heap of charcoal, so this intellect considers all religious acts as sins and what is true as false (721-725). It construes all rules of shastras wrongly and considers all good qualities as defects. In short, whatever has the sanction of the Vedas, is considered perverse by this intellect. Such intellect should be known as tamasic intellect, without reference to anyone. How can a dark night be considered suitable for giving of alms? O you, who are like the full moon, which opens up the lotus, in the form of Selfknowledge, I have made clear to you, the three types of intellect (726-730). Now when this intellect decides to undertake any action, the steadiness, which sustains it, is also of three kinds. I shall now explain to you, with their respective characteristics, the three types of steadiness; please give your attention. |
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