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ANUGITA
CHAPTER XXII
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Brahman said :
O best (of men)! I will explain to you accurately the quality of passion. Learn, O noble ones! the action of the quality of passion. Injuring (others), beauty 2, toil, pleasure and pain, cold and heat, power 1, war, peace, argument, repining 2, endurance, strength, valour, frenzy, wrath, exercise and quarrel too, vindictiveness, desire, backbiting, battle, the thought (that this or that is) mine, preservation 3, slaughter, bonds, affliction, buying and selling, touching 4 other people's weak points, by cutting, breaking, piercing; fierceness and cruelty, vilifying, pointing out others' weaknesses, thinking of (this) world, harbouring evil thoughts, animosity, abuse uttering falsehoods, bad 6 gifts, doubt, boasting, censure, praise, laudation 6, prowess, defiance, attendance. (on another), obedience 7, service,, harbouring desire, management 8, policy, heedlessness, contumely, belongings 9, and the various decorations which prevail in this world, for men, for women, for living creatures., for articles, and for houses, vexation, and also want of faith, vows and regulation 10.
Footnotes :
1. Arguna Misra says these mean pride of beauty and pride of power respectively. Cf. as to this list generally, Maitri.
2. Cf. Sanatsugata.
3. I presume this means solicitude for preserving what one has got. Cf. Gita.
4. Literally, piercing. 'Cutting, breaking, piercing,' further on, seem to indicate the greater or less offensiveness of the operation of 'touching others' weak points.'
5. I. e. to undeserving persons, Arguna Misra. Probably it includes the other defects also pointed out at Gita. As to doubt, see Gita.
6. The one is attributing merits which do not exist, the other is merely parading merits which do exist.
7. Arguna Misra takes this literally to mean 'wish to hear.'
8. Cleverness in worldly affairs, Nilakantha.
9. Cf. Gita, passim, and see also Yoga-sutras II, 30, and commentary (Calc. ed.)
10. Fasts and other observances for special benefits.
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