Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-14
The Three Qualities
His mind then becomes listless and dull, and he loses all interest in discriminating knowledge. The intellect loses its tenderness to such an extent, that it surpasses a stone in hardness and it appears as if he has lost memory. His body is full of thoughtless arrogance in and out and all his transactions are utterly foolish. The immoral actions which ought to prick his conscience (literally senses) come to an end only with his death. He takes great pleasure in doing wicked things, as an owl sees only at night (246-250). He has an extraordinary passion to do prohibited actions and his senses also run after them. He becomes intoxicated without being drunk, raves without being in delirium of high fever and becomes infatuated without love like a madman. He loses control over his mind, but this is not the state of samadhi, deep contemplation, because his mind has become hysterical on account of delusion. In short, these signs appear when the tamas quality waxes strong with all its paraphernalia. If he dies at this time, he takes his birth endowed with tamas (251-255). If a mustard seed is sown and grows into a plant after losing its form, what will it produce except mustard? Even though the fire becomes extinguished after lighting a lamp, whatever the lamp touches, catches fire. In the same way, whoever leaves his body carrying with him a bundle of desires imbued with tamas, his new birth also takes a form dominated by tamas. In short, if death comes when the tamas waxes strong, he is reborn as an animal, a bird, a tree or an insect. |
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