The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,886 pages of information about The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 2,886 pages of information about The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3.
and all that is above, are seen by the Soul.  Know that the Soul pervades the entire being without any space being left unoccupied.  All men should know the senses, the mind, and the understanding fully.  The three states or qualities called Darkness, Passion, and Goodness, exist, dependent on the senses, the mind, and the understanding.[604] Man, by apprehending with the aid of his intelligence, the manner in which creatures come and leave the world, is sure to gradually attain to steadfast tranquillity.  The three qualities (already mentioned, viz., Darkness, Passion, and Goodness), lead the understanding (to worldly attachments).  In this respect, the Understanding (or Intelligence) is identical with the Senses and the Mind.  The Understanding, therefore, is identical with the six (the five senses and the mind), and also with the objects comprehended by it.  When, however, the Understanding is destroyed, the three qualities (of Darkness, Passion, and Goodness) are incapable of leading to action.[605] This universe of immobile and mobile things consists of that intelligence.  It is from that Intelligence that everything arises and it is into it that everything subsides.  For this reason, the scriptures indicate that everything is a manifestation of Intelligence.  That by which one hears is the ear.  That by which one smells is called the organ of smell, and that by which one distinguishes the tastes is called the tongue.  By the coat that covers the body one acquires perception of touch.  That which is called the Intelligence undergoes modifications.[606] When the Intelligence desires anything it comes to be called Mind.  The foundations upon which the Intelligence rests are five in number, each serving a different purpose.  They are called the senses.  The invisible principle, viz., Intelligence rests on them.  The Intelligence that exists in a living creature concerns itself with the three states (called Passion, Darkness, and Goodness).  Sometimes it obtains joy and sometimes misery.  Sometimes it becomes divested of both joy and misery.  Even thus the Intelligence exists in the minds of all men.  Sometimes the Intelligence which is made up of the triple states (already mentioned), transcends those three states (by yoga), like the lord of rivers, viz., the Ocean, with his surges, transgressing his high continents.[607] That Intelligence which transcends the three qualities exist in the mind in a pure state of (unmodified) existence:  alone.  The quality of Darkness, however, that impels to action, soon pursues it.  At that time, the Intelligence sets all the senses to action.  The properties of the three are even thus:  joy dwells in Goodness; sorrow in Passion; delusion in Darkness.  All the states that exist (of the mind) are included in the three (that have been named).  I have now, O Bharata, told thee about the course of the Understanding.  An intelligent man should subdue all his senses..  The three qualities of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness,
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