Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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BHAGAVADGÎTÅ.
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bond of action. Darkness (you must know to be born of ignorance, it deludes all embodied (selfs). And that, o descendant of Bharata! binds down (the self) with heedlessness !, indolence, and sleep. Goodness unites (the self) with pleasure; passion, O descendant of Bharata! with action; and darkness with heedlessness, after shrouding up knowledge. Passion and darkness being repressed, goodness stands, O descendant of Bharata! Passion and goodness (being repressed), darkness; and likewise darkness and goodness (being repressed), passion When in this body at all portals 8 light (that is to say) knowledge prevails, then should one know goodness to be developed. Avarice, activity", performance of actions, want of tranquillity, desire, these are produced, O chief of the descendants of Bharata 1 when passion is developed. Want of light, want of activity 5, heedlessness, and delusion, these are produced, O descendant of Kuru ! when darkness is developed. When an embodied (self) encounters death, while goodness is developed, then he reaches the untainted worlds of those who know the highesto. Encountering death during (the preva
Carelessness about duty, owing to being intent on something else. Cf. Sutla Nipata, pp. 51-91; Dhammapada, stanza 31; Kathopanishad, p. 152.
• The effects of each quality assert themselves, when the other (wo are held in check.
le. the senses of perception. • Activity=always doing something or another; performance, &c.=rearing large mansions, &c.; want of tranquillity=perpetual agitation of mind, this I will do now, then that, and next the other;' desire=to obtain everything that one comes across.
• I.e. doing absolutely nothing.
• The highest manifestations of Brahman, viz. the Hiraxya. garbha, &c., say Sridbara and MadhusQuana. Nîlakariha also suggests that those who know the highest ' means gods.
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