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Chapter 14
Ajnanam tamasah phatam:- Tamoguna is full of delusion. Actions by a Tamasika person, are performed without thinking of their fruit, in the form of violence and loss etc., out of delusion. So such a person, is reborn after death, in the species of silly creatures such as beasts, birds, moths, insects, trees and creepers etc.
This verse, can be summed up as follows. The Sattvika person in all the circumstances, is happy, the Rajasika one, is sad, while the Tamasika, is ignorant, having no discrimination.
So long as, a person is attached to actions, and modes of nature, he cannot be happy, because his actions, bear different kinds of fruit, in the form of modes and circumstances. But, when he renounces his attachment to actions and modes, he cannot be sad and bound.
The thought, at the time of one's death, is the root of a being's rebirth. The predominance of anyone of the modes, is the root of that thought. The predominance of a mode, depends upon actions. It means, that a person performs actions, according to the mode and those actions, strengthen the mode and he thinks at the time of death, according to that mode of nature. Thus, the thought at the last moment, mode of nature and actions all
the three are responsible, for a persons rebirth, in good and bad species.
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