Sanskrit · Devanagari
तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम्। सुखसङ्गेन बध्नाति ज्ञानसङ्गेन चानघ ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
tatra sattvaṃ nirmalatvātprakāśakamanāmayam sukhasaṅgena badhnāti jñānasaṅgena cānagha
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882goodness which in consequence of being untainted is enlightening and free from (all) misery binds the soul O sinless one! with the bond of pleasure and the bond of knowledge.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।14.6।। --,निर्मलत्वात् स्फटिकमणिरिव प्रकाशकम् अनामयं निरुपद्रवं सत्त्वं तन्निबध्नाति। कथम् सुखसङ्गेन सुखी अहम् इति विषयभूतस्य सुखस्य विषयिणि आत्मनि संश्लेषापादनं मृषैव सुखे सञ्जनम् इति। सैषा अविद्या। न हि विषयधर्मः विषयिणः भवति। इच्छादि च धृत्यन्तं क्षेत्रस्यैव विषयस्य धर्मः इति उक्तं भगवता। अतः अविद्ययैव स्वकीयधर्मभूतया विषयविषय्यविवेकलक्षणया अस्वात्मभूते सुखे सञ्जयति इव? आसक्तमिव करोति? असङ्गं सक्तमिव करोति? असुखिनं सुखिनमिव। तथा ज्ञानसङ्गेन च? ज्ञानमिति सुखसाहचर्यात् क्षेत्रस्यैव विषयस्य अन्तःकरणस्य धर्मः? न आत्मनः आत्मधर्मत्वे सङ्गानुपपत्तेः? बन्धानुपपत्तेश्च। सुखे इव ज्ञानादौ सङ्गः मन्तव्यः। हे अनघ अव्यसन।।
a34f6fd65983…Rāmānuja
14.6 Of 'these', i.e., of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, the characteristic nature of the Sattva is this: it illuminates on account of its being pure. What is called purity is to be bereft of alities which veil light and happiness. Because its nature is solely the generation of light and happiness, it constitutes the cause of light and happiness. 'Light' or illumination is enlightenment about a thing as it is. It is 'not morbid,' i.e., an effect called morbidity (disease) does not exist in its presence. The meaning is, that Sattva is the cause of health. The Guna, called Sattva, however, binds the self by attachment to happiness and knowledge. The meaning is that it causes attachment to happiness and knowledge. When attachment to knowledge and happiness is born, one engages oneself in secular and Vedic means for securing them. Conseently, one is born in such bodies which constitute the means for realising such fruits. Hence the Sattva binds the self through attachment to happiness and knowledge. What is said is this: Sattva generates knowledge and happiness; again it generates attachment to them.
918a774805da…Swami Sivananda
14.6 तत्र of these? सत्त्वम् purity? निर्मलत्वात् from its stainlessness? प्रकाशकम् luminous? अनामयम् healthy? सुखसङ्गेन by attachment to happiness? बध्नाति binds? ज्ञानसङ्गेन by attachment to knowledge? च and? अनग O sinless one.Commentary Sattva is stainless like the crystal. It lays for one the trap of happiness and knowledge. It is a golden fetter. A Sattvic man compares himself with others and rejoices in his excellence. He is puffed up with his knowledge. His heart is filled with pride when he thinks that he,has more comforts or more pleasant experiences. He thinks? I am happy I am wise? and so he is bound as it were. These ideas really belong to the field but they are transferred through superimposition to the Self on account of the force of SattvaGuna.Rajas and Tamas are pitfalls on the path of knowledge.This attachment to happiness is an illusion. This is ignorance. An attribute of the object cannot belong to the subject. All the alities from desire to firmness (Cf.XIII.6) belong to the field. From ignorance? nondiscrimination is born and so the individual self is not able to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent? the subject and the object.Knowledge is an attribute of the Antahkarana (inner instrument? viz.? mind? intellect? the unconscious and the ego) but not of the Self. It if were an attribute of the Self? it could not produce attachment and bondage. Sattva binds the soul to knowledge through attachment.
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