Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-18
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39. That pleasure which is delusive to oneself, at first as well as in the end, which arises from sleep, sloth and heedlessness, is deemed to be of tamas quality O Partha, know that pleasure to be of tamas quality, which is derived by drinking wine, eating meat or in the company of a woman of loose character or by treachery, or by depriving somebody of his wealth or by flattery of a bard, or which is fed by sloth or slumber, and which, right from beginning to the end, deludes him and makes him go astray from the right path. I will not explain it to you in detail, because it is impossible to do so. Thus I have disclosed to you in accordance with the scriptures, the distinctive features of happiness, depending upon distinct actions (806-810). Whatever things there are in this world, big or small, none of them is without the agent, action and fruit. O Arjuna, as the cloth is made up of yarn, so this triad is woven by three qualities. |
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