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Chapter 14
During this period, his faculty of knowledge develops. He comes to know, several wonderful facts and topics, never known before. So he is attached to this knowledge, and he has a desire to maintain it forever. This attachment is the cause of his bondage. Moreover, his pride of superiority, that he knows more than others, also leads him to bondage. Thus he cannot transcend, the three gums. This attachment, is the quality of Rajas, which binds a striver (Gita 13/21). If the striver, is not attached to joy and knowledge, he transcends, the three gunas, including the Sattvaguna and realizes, the self.
A striver, should not enjoy that pleasure and knowledge, nor should he aim at them. He should think, that they are not conducive to attainment of his goal. Moreover, he has to attain that goal, which is an illuminator of pleasure and knowledge. Knowledge and pleasure, are mental projections during the preponderance of Sattva. These wax and wane, they come and go, while the self remains uniform, and constant. It knows no increase or decrease. Therefore, a striver should remain quite unconcerned and indifferent, to these modifications. He should not enjoy them. Thus he will not get entangled, in pleasure and knowledge, the evolutes of Sattva. If he is not attached to them, he realizes, God quickly. Even if he does not renounce this attachment, by having an aim of God-realization, in course of time, he develops a disinclination for pleasure and knowledge, and then he attains, God.
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