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births.) The country loving Gridhras (in the first sense, vultures and
in the second sense, home loving men of desires) partake of one fruit
(sorrow). And the forest frequenting Hansas (in one sense swans and
in the other sense discriminating men who give up desires) partake
of the other fruit (joy).
He who, through the favor of his Guru knows the One as be-
coming Many through Maya, knows the Truth.
Thus with the axe of wisdom, sharpened by whole-minded
devotion acquired by the worship of the Guru, do thou calmly and
steadily cut asunder the sheaths of Jiva and on attaining Paramatma,
do thou let go of the instrument itself.
THE GUNAS.
SKANDHA XI. CHAP. 13.
Satva, Rajas and Tamas they are the Gunas of Buddhi
(Prakriti), not of Atmd control Rajas and Tamas by means of Satva
and control Satva by Satva itself. When Satva grows in Man, he
acquires Dharma, which is Devotion to Me. By worshipping Satvic
objects Satva increases and Dharma is the outcome. That Dharma
kills Rajas and Tamas and it increases Satva. When Rajas and
Tamas are killed, Adharma which is an outcome of Rajas and Tamas
is also killed. The scriptures, water, men, land, time, karma, regene-
ration, meditation, mantra and purification these ten are accessaries
to the Gunas. Of these what the Sages praise are Satvic, what they
blame are Tamasic, what they neither praise nor blame are Rajasic.
Have resort to only those of them that are Satvic, for then Satva
will increase. Dharma follows that increase and wisdom follows
Dharma. But wisdom has its field only so long as memory lasts
and the (Gunas) are not exhausted. Fire that is produced by the
friction of bamboo pieces, burns up the forest and is then extinguished
of itself even so the body caused by disturbance of the Gunas is
extinguished of itself, (at that final stage).
(Of the scriptures, there are some that speak of inclination,
others that speak of disinclination. The latter only are to be follow-
ed. Water which has a purifying effect, as that of a sacred place is
to be used, not pointed water and wine. Bad men are to be shunned
and good men are to be mixed with. Quiet solitary places are to be
sought, not highways and gambling places. The time before sun
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