tatra sattvaṃ nirmalatvāt prakāśakam anāmayam
sukha-saṅgena badhnāti jñāna-saṅgena cānagha
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he anagha (O sinless one!),
tatra [
guṇeṣu madhye]
(there among the guṇas) sattvam (sattva) nirmalatvāt (because of lack of impurities) prakāśakam (illuminating) anāmayam (free form disease) [
asti]
(it is).
[
tat]
(that) sukha-saṅgena (by attachment to happiness) jñāna-saṅgena ca (and by attachment to knowledge) [
dehinam]
(the embodied one) badhnāti (it binds).
tatra |
– |
av. – there (from: tat; indeclinable locative with an ending -tra); |
sattvam |
– |
sattva (√as – to be, PPr sant – being, existing, true, the essence) abst. 1n.1 n. – being, essence, wisdom, spirit, one of the three guṇas; |
nirmalatvāt |
– |
nir-mala-tva 5n.1 abst. n. – because of lack of impurities (from: niḥ – out of, away from, without; mala – impurity, dirt, filth); |
prakāśakam |
– |
prakāśaka 1n.1 n. – manifesting, shining, illuminating (from: pra-√kāś – to become visible, to shine); |
anāmayam |
– |
an-āmaya 1n.1 n. – free form disease, faultless (āmaya – sickness); |
sukha-saṅgena |
– |
sukha-saṅga 3n.1 m.; TP: sukhena saṅgeneti – by attachment to happiness (from: su – prefix: good, excellent, beautiful, virtuous; kha – cavity, hole, nave; su-kha – joy, happiness, literally: good hole in the nave [of a wheel through which an axis runs] that makes the moving smooth; or from: su-√sthā; opposite to: duḥkha – pain, difficulty; sam-√gam – come together or √sañj – to attach, to stick, to embrace, saṅga – clinging, contact, relation, desire, attachment); |
badhnāti |
– |
√bandh (to bind, to fetter) Praes. P 1v.1 – it binds; |
jñāna-saṅgena |
– |
jñāna-saṅga 3n.1 m.; TP: jñānena saṅgeneti – by attachment to knowledge (from: √jñā – to know, to understand, jñāna – knowledge, wisdom, intelligence; sam-√gam – come together or √sañj – to attach, to stick, to embrace, saṅga – clinging, contact, relation, desire, attachment); |
ca |
– |
av. – and; |
anagha |
– |
an-agha 8n.1 m. – O sinless one (from: agha – evil, sin, suffering); |
nirmalatvāt → nirmamatvāt (because of freedom from ‘my’-notion);
sukha-saṅgena badhnāti → sukha-duḥkhena badhnāti / sukha-saṅge nibadhnāti / (it binds with happiness and distress / it binds in attachment to happiness);
jñāna-saṅgena → jñāna-saṁghena / jñāna-saṁkhena (by contact with knowledge);
tatra sattvādīnāṃ sattvasyaiva tāval lakṣaṇam ucyate—
nirmalatvāt sphaṭika-maṇir iva prakāśakam anāmayaṃ nirupadravaṃ sattvaṃ tan nibadhnāti | kathaṃ ? sukha-saṅgena sukhy aham iti viṣaya-bhūtasya sukhasya viṣayiṇy ātmani saṃśleṣāpādanaṃ mṛṣaiva sukhe sañjanam iti | saiṣāvidyā | na hi viṣaya-dharmo viṣayiṇo bhavati | icchādi ca dhṛty-antaṃ kṣetrasyaiva viṣayasya dharmaḥ ity uktaṃ bhagavatā | ato’vidyayaiva svakīya-dharma-bhūtayā viṣaya-viṣayy-aviveka-lakṣaṇayāsvātma-bhūte sukhe saṃjayatīva, āsaktam iva karoti, asaṅgaṃ saktam iva karoti, asukhinaṃ sukhinam iva | tathā jñāna-saṅgena ca, jñānam iti sukha-sāhacaryāt kṣetrasyaiva viṣayasyāntaḥ-karaṇasya dharmaḥ, nātmanaḥ | ātma-dharmatve saṅgānupapatteḥ, bandhānupapatteś ca | sukha iva jñānādau saṅgo mantavyaḥ | he anagha avyasana
sattvarajastamasām ākāraṃ bandhanaprakāraṃ cāha
tatra sattvarajastamas tu sattvasya svarūpam īdṛśam nirmalatvāt prakāśakam; prakāśasukhāvaraṇasvabhāvarahitatā nirmalatvam; prakāśasukhajananaikāntasvabhāvatayā prakāśasukhahetubhūtam ityarthaḥ / prakāśaḥ vastuyāthātmyāvabodhaḥ / anāmayam āmayākhyaṃ kāryaṃ na vidyata ity anāmayam; arogatāhetur ityarthaḥ / eṣa sattvākhyo guṇo dehinam enaṃ sukhasaṅgena jñānasaṅgena ca badhnāti puruṣasya sukhasaṅgaṃ jñānasaṅgaṃ ca janayatītyarthaḥ/ jñānasukhayos saṅge hi jāte tatsādhaneṣu laukikavaidikeṣu pravartate; tataś ca tatphalānubhavasādhanabhūtāsu yoniṣu jāyata iti sattvaṃ sukhajñānasaṅgadvāreṇa puruṣaṃ badhnāti / jñānasukhajananaṃ punar api tayos saṅgajananaṃ ca sattvam ity uktaṃ bhavati
tatra sattvasya bandhakatva-prakāraṃ cāha tatreti | tatra teṣāṃ guṇānāṃ madhye sattvaṃ nirmalatvāt svacchatvāt sphaṭika-maṇir iva prakāśakaṃ bhāsvaram anāmayaṃ ca nirupadravam | śāntam ity arthaḥ | ataḥ śāntatvāt sva-kāryeṇa sukhena yaḥ saṅgas tena badhnāti | prakāśakatvāc ca svakāryeṇa jñānena yaḥ saṅgas tena ca badhnāti | he anagha niṣpāpa, ahaṃ sukhī jñānī ceti manodharmāṃs tad-abhimānini kṣetrajñe saṃyojayatīty arthaḥ
tatra ko guṇaḥ kena saṅgena badhnāti ? ity ucyate tatreti | tatra teṣu guṇeṣu madhye sattvaṃ prakāśakam caitanyasya tamo-guṇa-kṛtāvaraṇa-tirodhāyakaṃ
nirmalatvāt svacchatvāc cid-bimba-grahaṇa-yogyatvād iti yāvat | na kevalaṃ caitanyābhivyañjakaṃ kintu anāmayaṃ | āmayo duḥkhaṃ tad-virodhi sukhasyāpi vyañjakam ity arthaḥ | tad badhnāti sukha-saṅgena ca dehinaṃ ! he anagha avyasana ! sarvatra sambodhanānām abhiprāyaḥ prāg uktaḥ smartavyaḥ | atra sukha-jñāna-śabdābhyām antaḥ-karaṇa-pariṇāmau tad-vyañjakāv ucyete | icchā dveṣaḥ sukhaṃ duḥkhaṃ saṃghātaś cetanā dhṛtiḥ [Gītā 13.7] iti sukha-cetanayor apīcchādivat kṣetra-dharmatvena pāṭhāt | tatrāntaḥ-karaṇa-dharmasya sukhasya jñānasya cātmany adhyāsaḥ saṅgo ‚haṃ jāna iti ca | na hi viṣaya-dharmo viṣayiṇo bhavati | tasmād avidyā-mātram etad iti śataśa uktaṃ prāk
tatra sattvasya lakṣaṇaṃ bandhakatva-prakāraṃ cāha tatreti | anāmayaṃ nirupadravaṃ śāntam ity arthaḥ | | śāntatvāt svakāryeṇa sukhena yaḥ saṅgaḥ prakāśakatvāt svakāryeṇa jñānena ca yaḥ saṅgaḥ ahaṃ sukhī jñānī cety upādhi-dharmayor avidyayaiva jīvasyābhimānas tena taṃ badhnāti | he anagheti tvaṃ tu ahaṃ sukhī ahaṃ jñānīty abhimāna-lakṣaṇam aghaṃ mā svīkur iti bhāvaḥ
atha sattvādīnāṃ trayāṇāṃ lakṣaṇāni bandhakatva-prakārāṃś cāha tatreti tribhiḥ | tatra teṣu triṣu madhye prakāśakaṃ jñāna-vyañjakam anāmayam arogaṃ duḥkha-virodhi-sukha-vyañjakam iti yāvat | kutaḥ | nirmalatvāt svacchatvāt | tathā ca prakāśa-sukha-kāraṇaṃ sattvam iti | tac ca sattvaṃ sva-kārye jñāne sukhe ca yaḥ saṃyogo jñāny ahaṃ sukhy aham ity abhimānas tena puruṣaṃ nibadhnāti | jñānaṃ cedaṃ laukika-vastu -yāthātmya-viṣayaṃ sukhaṃ ca dehendriya-prasada-rūpaṃ bodhyam | tatra tatra saṅge sati tad-upāyeṣu karmasu pravṛttis tat-phalānubhavopāyeṣu deheṣūtpattiḥ | punaś ca tatra tatra saṅga iti na sattvād vimuktiḥ