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Guna and Dosha
Dispute or quarrel generates intense anger which is followed by confusion or infatuation. Infatuation destroys his intelligence and sense of right and wrong.
O good one, when the intelligence becomes clouded and perverted on account of Tamas, he is reduced almost to nothing. Like a man in swoon or like a dead man he falls from his purpose or misses the goal of his life.
He is passionately attached to objects and knows neither himself nor the Supreme Self. He in vain vegetates like a plant and merely breathes like the bellows.
“Those who perform Yajna attain Svarga” - sayings like these which are contained in the Vedas which treat of the fruits of works do not speak of final bliss. They do not show a way to salvation. They are only tempting words really meant for the attainment of Moksha, just like words said to a child to induce him to take medicine. The father says, “Drink this bitter medicine. I shall give you sugar candy.” The child takes the medicine. But the sugar candy is not what he gets, for his real gain is recovery from disease. Even so these inducements will create a taste in men for attaining Self-realisation. People are led by means of these tempting prospects to attain the final emancipation.
From their very birth men are attracted to sense-objects, to their lives, and powers, and to their relatives. These are only sources of misery and bondage.
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