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Chapter XXVI




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Hindu Books > Hindu Scriptures > Bhagwad Gita > The Bhagavad Gita > Anugita > Chapter XXVI

ANUGITA

CHAPTER XXVI

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Brahman said :

That Mahat which was first produced, is (afterwards) called egoism; when it is born as (the feeling itself) 1 I, that is said to be the second creation. That egoism is stated to be the source of all entities 2, that from which the changes take place 3; it is full of light, the supporter of consciousness; it is that from which the people are produced, the Pragapati. It is a deity, the producer of the deities, and of the mind; it is the creator of the three worlds.

Footnotes :

1. I. e. when the Mahat develops into the feeling of self-consciousness--I--then it assumes the name of egoism.

2. See on this Sankhya-sara. Hall's Introd. note.

3. So Arguna Misra. Nilakantha says it means 'born from the change, or development, viz. Mahat.' The Sankhya-sara, however, shows it means 'appertaining to the quality of goodness.' See also Sankhya-karika 25, and commentary there, which is of great help here. The sense is this: Egoism is of three descriptions; it appertains to the quality of goodness, and as such is the creator of the deities and mind, the deities being those presiding over the ten senses (cf. Sankhya-sara); it is full of light, or appertains to the quality of passion (cf. ibid.), and as such imparts to the other two qualities their virtue of activity (cf. Sankhya- karika commentary, Taranath's ed.); it is also of the quality of darkness, and as such the producer of the: triple world (see ibid.) See Sankhya-sutra II, 17, 18, and comment, where a view somewhat different in one or two details is stated.




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