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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ANUGÍTÂ.
of goodness have been specifically described, and the operation of the qualities has been accurately stated. The man who always understands these qualities, enjoys the qualities', but is not attached to the qualities.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Brahman said : The qualities cannot be explained altogether distinctly (from one another). Passion, goodness, and darkness likewise are seen mixed up (with one another). They are attached to one another, they feed on one another. They all depend on one another, and likewise follow one another. There is no doubt of this, that as longʻas there is goodness so long darkness exists. And as long as goodness and darkness, so long is passion said (to exist) here. They perform their journey together, in union, and moving about collectively. For they act with cause or without cause, moving in a body. Of all these acting with one another, but differing in development, the increase and diminution will now be stated. Where darkness is increased, abiding in the lower entities, there passion should be understood to be little, and goodness likewise to be less. Where Cf. Gita inter alia, p. 104.
• Cl. p. 318 supra · So Arguna Misra. Nilakantha says on this, . However much goodness may be increased, it is still beld in check by darkness, and thus there is the continual relation of that which checks and that which is checked between the three qualities; hence they are alike. So also passion being increased, holds goodness and darkness in check. The sense seems to be that the qualities dominale all in this world and exist together though varying in strength' (Gitá, p. 73).
• I. e. spontaneously, Arguna Misra. Cl. Santi Parvan (Moksba). chap. 194, st. 35.
• It is in the lower species that darkness is predominant.
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