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Chapter 17
Shraddhatrayavibhaga Yoga
5 - 6. Those people who perform terrible austerities, not according to the rules or the scriptures, being vain and conceited and impelled by desires and passion, oppress the elements in their bodies and Me dwelling therein. Know that their such resolve is not luminous.
Bhashya :- Those who oppress the Resplendent Lord within are of little perceptivity. Thus in Anabhimaan scripture “Those who are not receptive to the Great Self, the Supreme Person, oppress Him". Those who are a-sura un-enlightened (of scriptures) are of non-luminous, obscure, of taamasic receptivity. “The Divine ones are said to be saatvic (luminous) and the demons are combination of raajas (enterprising) energy and obscurity, taamasic (obscure) energy” thus in Agniveshya scripture.
Tatparya Nirnaya :- Those who perform terrible austerities even according to scriptures, they being arrogant and full of pride and strengthened by the desire for fruits and attachment propitiating gods in the lower order like Lakshmi are also devoted to Sri Vishnu. But those who consider Him, who pervades, the whole body as having lesser gunas will go to obscure worlds. Such people having obscure receptivity are divided in categories like Daityas, Pishachas and Rakshasas.
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