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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CHAPTER XXI, 11.
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(are made up of) the three qualities. Goodness is the match of darkness, and passion is the match of goodness; and goodness is also the match of passion, and darkness the match of goodness. Where darkness is restrained, passion there prevails. Where passion is restrained, goodness there prevails!. Darkness should be understood to consist in obscurity. It has three qualities, and is called delusion. Its characteristic is also impiety, and it is constant in sinful actions. This is the nature of darkness; it also appears combined (with others). Passion is said to consist in activity, and is the cause of successive : (acts). When it prevails, its characteristic, among all beings, appears to be production. Light, lightness", faith, such is stated to be the nature of goodness (prevailing) among all beings, as accepted by good men. The true nature of their characteristics, in aggregation and separation, will now be stated together with the reasons; learn those accurately. Delusion, ignorance,
upholding, says Arguna Misra, as the total absence of one would lead to the absence of the others also; attending=becoming subordinate to whichever of them is dominant for the time being; joined=so as to become one organic whole. Cf. as to all this, Yoga-stra II, 18, and commentary, p. 101; Sâökhya-kårikå, Kårikå 12, with Vakaspali Misra's comments on it.
· Cl. Gitá, p. 108, and the quotation in the Sankhyatattvakaumudi, p. 64.
? I.c. characteristics, viz. obscurity (which scems to stand for ignorance), delusion (which is false knowledge), and impiety (doing that which is known to be sinful and wrong).
The original means, according to Nilakantha, wrong, unlawful conduct. As to all this cf. Sånti Parvan (Moksha), chap. 194, st. 29.
• I. e. apparently perpetually doing something. Cf. Gitá, p. 108.
• Cl. as to this, and generally also, Sankhya-kårikå 13, and commentary of Válaspati Misra (p. 64). The blazing upwards of fire is said to illustrate the lighiness of the quality of goodness which belongs to fire.
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