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Manusmriti: The Laws of Manu |
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Goodness is declared (to have the form of) knowledge, Darkness (of)
ignorance, Activity (of) love and hatred; such is the nature of
these (three) which is (all) pervading and clings to everything
created. 27.
When (man) experiences in his soul a (feeling) full of bliss, a deep
calm, as it were, and a pure light, then let him know (that it is)
among those three (the quality called) Goodness. 28.
What is mixed with pain and does not give satisfaction to the soul
one may know (to be the quality of) Activity, which is difficult to
conquer, and which ever draws embodied (souls towards sensual
objects). 29.
What is coupled with delusion, what has the character of an indiscernible
mass, what cannot be fathomed by reasoning, what cannot be fully
known, one must consider (as the quality of) Darkness. 30.
I will, moreover, fully describe the results which arise from these
three qualities, the excellent ones, the middling ones, and the
lowest.
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