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Chapter 17
midhagrahenatmano yatpidaya kriyate tapah
parasyotsadanartham va tattamasamudahrtam
Penance, performed with foolish obstinacy, with self-torture or causing injury to others, is said to he tamasika (of the mode of ignorance). 19
Comment:-
Mudhagrahenatmano yatpidaya kriyate tapah:- In a tamasika person, delusion predominates. Such a person performs tamasika sacrifice, out of delusion and obstinacy, by torturing his own self i.e., body and mind etc.
Parasyotsadanartham va:- Such a person, performs penance in order to cause injury to others, and to destroy them, even if he himself has to suffer. Such a person, can perform penance by tolerating excessive heat and cold and observing fasts also, by his own sweet will.
Tattamasamudahtrtam:- Such penance, which is performed, in order to cause injury to others, is called tamasika.
(A sattvika person, who performs penance with utmost faith, having no desire for its fruit, deserves to be called, a man. A rajasika person, who performs penance in order to win respect, honour and reverence, does not deserve to be called a man, because even birds and beasts, like respect and honour etc., and they have no show or ostentation. The tamasika people, are inferior, even to birds and beasts, because they cause injury to others even hy self-torture while the birds and beasts, do not cause injury to others, suffering self mortification.]
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