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Chapter 14 - Proclivities to Know

This diagnostic chapter of 27slokas, known asgunatraya vibhaaga yoga, Differentiation of Qualities Three, details the three human proclivities - virtue, passion and delusion It concludes with the identification of the realized spirit It may be noted that s3, s4 and s19 that deal with the Nature and the Spirit are digressions, and thus are interpolations

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Thus spoke the Lord:

Pass I now thee that knowledge

With which sages free themselves

2

Knohoso this reaches Me

Keeps thus births ’n deaths at bay

5

To tie the Spirit ’n body tight

Uses Nature as its threads

Virtue, passion as well delusion

6

Spirit as well gets well enticed

By the charms of life well-led

Steeped in wisdoets fond of joys of life

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It’s in delusion Spirit with sloth

Doth go in torong path

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Gives man virtue life of ease

Grinds him passion in despair

Deprives delusion him of reason

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Of the trio often

Takes as lead role one of these

Others to sidelines are confined

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Wearing wisdohout life

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Plain greedy, or ever restive

It’s the way all passionate live

13

Dull in ic

He’s but deluded

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Peaks as virtue dies as one

Ascends he the State Highest

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Dies if one with passion on hold