Darkness

Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 21 Feb 2010 14:47 and updated at 21 Feb 2010 14:47

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MAHABHARATA NOUN

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Mbh.3.234.11878 Darkness will be dispelled at dawn, and day disappear at evening!
Mbh.3.311.15372 Darkness doth not permit a thing to show itself.
Mbh.6.38.1779 Darkness, however, know, is born of ignorance, and bewilders all embodied soul.
Mbh.6.38.1791 The fruit, however, of passion, is misery; and the fruit of Darkness is ignorance.
Mbh.6.41.1858 It is one of Goodness, or Passion, or Darkness'
Mbh.6.66.3658 O king, He is full of goodness and divested of all the qualities of Darkness and Passion.
Mbh.7.184.10086 Darkness set in, and a loud and terrible uproar arose.
Mbh.7.194.10745 Darkness set in, the sun became obscure.
Mbh.7.198.11246 Darkness having enveloped the world during that fierce battle, the entire Pandava army, with Savyasachin, the son of Panda, could not be seen.
Mbh.8.10.405 And they also said Slay the Parthas and the Pancalas, O son of Radha, for our victory, like risen Sun ever destroying Darkness with his fierce rays!
Mbh.9.3.198 Darkness also spread over the scene, and the field of battle was covered with arrows.
Mbh.12.58.3152 The triple aggregate in respect of emancipation, viz, to the attributes of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness, and another, a fourth, viz, the practice of duty without hope of bliss or reward in this or the other world, were treated in it.
Mbh.12.72.4132 Darkness and ceaseless pain are there, and it is full of sorrow.
Mbh.12.109.6198 They that have checked all the qualities that appertain to Passion and Darkness, that are possessed of high souls, and that practise the qualities that are called Good, succeed in overcoming all difficulties.
Mbh.12.186.11226 Darkness, Passion, and Goodness are the attributes of the living agent.
Mbh.12.187.11260 Those Brahmanas again that became fond of untruth and injuring other creatures, possessed of cupidity, engaged in all kinds of acts for a living, and fallen away from purity of behaviour, and thus wedded to the attribute of Darkness, became Sudras.
Mbh.12.189.11304 Untruth is only another form of Darkness.
Mbh.12.189.11305 It is Darkness that leads downwards.
Mbh.12.189.11306 Those who are afflicted by Darkness and covered by it fail to behold the lighted regions of heaven.
Mbh.12.189.11307 It has been said that Heaven is Light and that Hell is Darkness.
Mbh.12.189.11311 Similarly, that which is Untruth is Unrighteousness; that which is Unrighteousness is Darkness; and that which is Darkness is Sorrow or Misery.
Mbh.12.189.11315 The happiness of creatures that are overwhelmed by Darkness disappears like the splendour of the Moon when afflicted by Rahu
Mbh.12.189.11334 Bhrigu said, On this it is said as follows: from Untruth springs Darkness.
Mbh.12.189.11335 They that are overwhelmed by Darkness pursue only Unrighteousness and not Righteousness, being overmastered by wrath, covetousness, malice, falsehood, and similar evils.
Mbh.12.190.11404 That man who in the observance of this mode of life seeks the acquisition of the triple aggregate viz, Religion, Wealth, and Pleasure, with that of the great end of the three attributes of Goodness and Passion and Darkness enjoys great happiness here and at last attains to the end that is reserved for persons that are virtuous and good
Mbh.12.193.11579 The three states or qualities called Darkness, Passion, and Goodness, exist, dependent on the senses, the mind, and the understanding
Mbh.12.193.11581 The three qualities already mentioned, viz, Darkness, Passion, and Goodness, lead the understanding to worldly attachments.
Mbh.12.193.11584 When, however, the Understanding is destroyed, the three qualities of Darkness, Passion, and Goodness are incapable of leading to action
Mbh.12.193.11596 The Intelligence that exists in a living creature concerns itself with the three states called Passion, Darkness, and Goodness.
Mbh.12.193.11602 The quality of Darkness, however, that impels to action, soon pursues it.
Mbh.12.193.11604 The properties of the three are even thus: joy dwells in Goodness; sorrow in Passion; delusion in Darkness.
Mbh.12.193.11609 The three qualities of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness, are always attached to living creatures.
Mbh.12.193.11610 Three kinds of intelligence also are noticeable in every creature, viz, that which depends upon Goodness, that upon Passion, and that upon Darkness, O Bharata.
Mbh.12.193.11611 The quality of Goodness brings happiness; the quality of Passion produces sorrow; and if these two combine with the quality of Darkness, then neither happiness nor sorrow is produced but, instead, only delusion or error.
Mbh.12.193.11615 That state, again, which is allied with delusion and error, and in consequence of which one knows not what to do, which is unascertainable and unknown, should be regarded as belonging to the quality of Darkness
Mbh.12.193.11620 Disgrace, delusion, error, sleep and stupefaction, that overtake one through excess of ill-luck, are the various properties of the state of Darkness
Mbh.12.206.12480 After the high-souled Grandsire had, O mighty-armed one, thus sprung from the primeval lotus, a great Asura of the name of Madhu, having no beginning, started into birth, springing from the attribute or Darkness Tamas.
Mbh.12.210.12781 Like dust following the wind that moves it, the creature-Soul, divested of body, but endued still with inclinations born of Passion and Darkness and with principles of causes constituted by the acts of the life that is over, moves on, following the direction that the Supreme Soul gives it.
Mbh.12.211.12799 Possessed of body, a person, through folly, and endued with wrath and cupidity and all the propensities born of Passion and Darkness, becomes attached to all earthly objects.
Mbh.12.211.12806 When every one's body is made up of the five original elements as also of the three attributes of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness, whom shall one adore and whom shall one blame with what words?
Mbh.12.211.12814 All creatures, stupefied, in consequence of Ignorance, by the attributes of Goodness and Passion and Darkness, are continually revolving like a wheel.
Mbh.12.211.12816 The fivefold elements, the senses, the attributes of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness, the three worlds with the Supreme Being himself, and acts, all rest on Self-consciousness
Mbh.12.211.12819 It is like Darkness and is born of Ignorance.
Mbh.12.211.12820 To the three attributes of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness are attached all the joys and sorrows of creatures.
Mbh.12.211.12821 Listen now to those consequences that spring from the attributes of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness.
Mbh.12.211.12823 I shall now mention the consequences of Passion and Darkness.
Mbh.12.211.12825 Cheerlessness, grief, discontent, vanity, pride, and wickedness, all belong to Darkness.
Mbh.12.211.12835 As an axe made of steel cuts a steel chain and accomplishing the act becomes broken itself, after the same manner, a person of cleansed Soul, destroying all the faults that spring from Darkness and that are born with the Soul when it is reborn, succeeds in dissolving his connection with the body and attaining Emancipation
Mbh.12.211.12836 The qualities having their origin in Passion, those that spring from Darkness, and those stainless one characterised by purity viz, those included under the quality of Goodness, constitute as it were the seed from which all embodied creatures have grown.
Mbh.12.211.12838 A person of cleansed soul, therefore, should abandon all the qualities born of Passion and Darkness.
Mbh.12.211.12839 Then again, when the quality of Goodness becomes freed from those of Passion and Darkness, it becomes more resplendent still.
Mbh.12.211.12844 Through qualities born of Darkness, one does all acts fraught with cupidity and springing from wrath.
Mbh.12.211.12845 In consequence of the attribute of Darkness, one embraces sleep and procrastination and becomes addicted to all acts of cruelty and carnal pleasure.
Mbh.12.212.12848 From the attribute of Darkness, O bull of Bharata's race, arise wrath and cupidity and fear and pride.
Mbh.12.212.12871 The attribute of Passion rests on that of Darkness.
Mbh.12.212.12873 Darkness which is unmanifest overspreads itself on Knowledge, and causes the phenomena of Intelligence and Consciousness
Mbh.12.213.12939 He that betakes himself to action simply for the purposes of sustaining his body, reducing with the aid of the mind the three attributes of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness into a state of uniformity, and brings at his last moments the vital breaths to the duct called Manovaha, escapes the obligation of rebirth
Mbh.12.213.12943 Therefore, for destroying the mind as mind, one should do only sinless deeds and freeing oneself from the attributes of Passion and Darkness, one is sure to attain to an end that is very desirable
Mbh.12.214.12972 Indeed, as robbers have to throw away their spoil if they wish for safety, even so should a person cast off all acts dictated by Passion and Darkness if he is to obtain felicity.
Mbh.12.215.12994 In dreams, the embodied soul, affected by the attributes of Passion and Darkness, seems to become possessed of another body and move and act influenced by desire
Mbh.12.215.13007 Whichever among the three attributes of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness is brought about by the influence of past acts and by whichever amongst them the mind is affected for the time being in whatever way, the elements in their subtile forms display or indicate accordingly in the way of images
Mbh.12.215.13008 After images have thus been produced, the particular attribute of Goodness or Passion or Darkness that may have been brought by past act rises in the mind and conduces to its last result, viz, happiness or misery.
Mbh.12.215.13009 Those images having wind, bile, and phlegm for their chief causes, which men apprehend through ignorance and in consequence of propensities fraught with Passion and Darkness, cannot, it has been said, be easily discarded
Mbh.12.215.13022 That yogin, however, who has crossed Darkness or ignorance, becomes possessed of transcending effulgence.
Mbh.12.215.13025 Darkness or pride and cruelty, which is destructive of the former, has been adopted by the Asuras.
Mbh.12.215.13027 It should be known that the qualities of Goodness, Passion and Darkness belong to the deities and the Asuras.
Mbh.12.216.13056 Prakriti is fraught with the three attributes of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness.
Mbh.12.216.13065 After the same manner the embodied Soul is invested with the three attributes of Goodness, Passion, and Darkness.
Mbh.12.216.13074 Whatever acts are destructive of Passion and Darkness constitute yoga in respect of its real character.
Mbh.12.218.13272 There are again in respect of all perceptions of the mind three classes, viz, those that appertain to Goodness, those that appertain to Passion, and those that appertain to Darkness.
Mbh.12.218.13276 Wrong judgment, stupefaction, heedlessness, dreams, and sleepiness, however caused, belong to the attribute of Darkness.
Mbh.12.218.13279 Whatever state, as regards either the body or the mind, exists with error or heedlessness, should be known as indicative of Darkness which is incomprehensible and inexplicable.
Mbh.12.226.13969 The qualities of Passion and Darkness do not soil thee for thou hast conquered thy senses.
Mbh.12.238.14744 Primordial Nature Prakriti having the three attributes of Goodness and Passion and Darkness is the refuge of the knowledge which exists only in the form of a sound.
Mbh.12.274.16843 During wakefulness there are three states of the mind, viz, that connected with Goodness, that with Passion, and that with Darkness.
Mbh.12.274.16847 Whatever states of Goodness, Passion, or Darkness are experienced by living creatures, as exhibited in acts, during their hours of Wakefulness, reappear in memory during their hours of steep when they dream.
Mbh.12.278.17028 On the other hand, he becomes enveloped by the Darkness of Ignorance having attachment and aversion for its essence that is born of his merits and demerits
Mbh.12.278.17029 As the wind impregnated with dust of antimony once again seizes the efflorescence of realgar and though itself destitute of colour assumes the hues of the substances which it has seized and tinges the different points of the compass which represent its own hueless progenitor, viz, space, after the same manner, Jiva, though himself colourless, assumes a hue in consequence of being enveloped by Darkness and variegated by the fruits of action, and travels from body to body making his own stainless and immutable progenitor appear as stained and changeful
Mbh.12.278.17030 When Jiva succeeds in dispelling by means of Knowledge, the Darkness that invests him in consequence of Ignorance, then Immutable Brahma becomes displayed in all His glory.
Mbh.12.294.18394 When one's mind becomes divested of desire, and when all Darkness is dispelled from it, it is then that one succeeds in obtaining what is auspicious
Mbh.12.300.18849 The high-souled Yogin, possessed of greatness, can enter into and come out of, at his will, Brahma himself who is the lord of all deities, and the boon-giving Vishnu, and Bhava, and Dharma, and the six-faced Kartikeya, and the spiritual sons of Brahmana, the quality of Darkness that is productive of much pain, and that of Passion, and that of Sattwa which is pure, and Prakriti which is the highest, and the goddess Siddhi who is the spouse of Varuna, and all kinds of energy, and all enduring patience, and the bright lord of stars in the firmament with the stars twinkling all around, and the Viswas.
Mbh.12.301.18867 Stupefaction has Tamas Darkness for its refuge.
Mbh.12.301.18878 Knowing that this body, that is endued with six and ten possessions, is the result of the quality of Sattwa, understanding fully the nature of the physical organism and the character of the Chetana that dwells within it, recognising the one existent Being that live in the body viz, the Soul, which stands aloof from every concern of the body and in which no sin can attach, realising the nature of that second object, viz; the acts of persons attached to the objects of the senses, understanding also the character of the senses and the sensual objects which have their refuge in the Soul, appreciating the difficulty of Emancipation and the scriptures that bear upon it knowing fully the nature of the vital breaths called Prana, Apana, Samana, Vyana, and Udana, as also the two other breaths, viz, the one going downward and the other moving upward indeed, knowing those seven breaths ordained to accomplish seven different functions, ascertaining the nature of the Prajapatis and the Rishis and the high paths, many in number, of virtue or righteousness, and the seven Rishis and the innumerable royal Rishis, O scorcher of foes, and the great celestial Rishis and the other regenerate Rishis endued with the effulgence of the Sun, beholding all these falling away from their puissance in course of many long ages, O monarch, hearing of the destruction of even of all the mighty beings in the universe, understanding also the inauspicious end that is attained, O king, by creatures of sinful acts, and the miseries endured by those that fall into the river Vaitarani in the realms of Yama, and the inauspicious wanderings of creatures through diverse wombs, and the character of their residence in the unholy uterus in the midst of blood and water and phlegm and urine and faeces, all of foul smell, and then in bodies that result from the union of blood and the vital seed, of marrow and sinews, abounding with hundreds of nerves and arteries and forming an impure mansion of nine doors, comprehending also what is for his own good what those divers combinations are which are productive of good beholding the abominable conduct of creatures whose natures are characterised by Darkness or Passion or Goodness, O chief of Bharata's race, conduct that is reprehended, in view of its incapacity to acquire Emancipation, by the followers of the Sankhya doctrine who are fully conversant with the Soul, beholding the swallowing up of the Moon and the Sun by Rahu, the falling of stars from their fixed positions and the diversions of constellations from their orbits, knowing the sad separation of all united objects and the diabolical behaviour of creatures in devouring one another, seeing the absence of all intelligence in the infancy of human beings and the deterioration and destruction of the body, marking the little attachment creatures have to the quality of Sattwa in consequence of their being overwhelmed by wrath and stupefaction, beholding also only one among thousands of human beings resolved to struggle after the acquisition of Emancipation, understanding the difficulty of attaining to Emancipation according to what is stated in the scriptures, seeing the marked solicitude that creatures manifest for all unattained objects and their comparative indifference to all objects that have been attained marking the wickedness that results from all objects of the senses O king and the repulsive bodies, O son of Kunti, of persons reft of life, and the residence, always fraught with grief, of human beings, O Bharata, in houses in the midst of spouses and children, knowing the end of those terrible and fallen men who become guilty of slaying Brahmanas, and of those wicked Brahmanas that are addicted to the drinking of alcoholic stimulants, and the equally sad end of those that become criminally attached to the spouses of their preceptors, and of those men, O Yudhishthira, that do not properly reverence their mothers, as also of those that have no reverence and worship to offer to the deities, understanding also, with the help of that knowledge which their philosophy imparts, the end that of all perpetrators of wicked acts, and the diverse ends that overtake those who have taken birth among the intermediate orders, ascertaining the diverse declarations of the Vedas, the courses of seasons, the fading of years, of months, of fortnights, and of days, beholding directly the waxing and the waning of the Moon, seeing the rising and the ebbing of the seas, and the diminution of wealth and its increase once more, and the separation of united objects, the lapse of Yugas, the destruction of mountains, the drying up of rivers, the deterioration of the purity of the several orders and the end also of that deterioration occurring repeatedly, beholding the birth, decrepitude, death, and sorrows of creatures, knowing truly the faults attaching to the body and the sorrows to which human beings are subject, and the vicissitudes to which the bodies of creatures are subject, and understanding all the faults that attach to their own souls, and also all the inauspicious faults that attach to their own bodies the followers of the Sankhya philosophy succeed in attaining to Emancipation.
Mbh.12.306.19245 He dwells on the other share of thick Darkness and transcends him called Iswara
Mbh.12.306.19246 Persons conversant with the Vedas and endued with omniscience call Him the dispeller of Darkness, stainless, transcending Darkness, without attributes and endued therewith.
Mbh.12.316.19742 While in Samadhi, the Yogin beholds Brahma which is Supreme and Immutable, and which is situated like a blazing Effulgence in the midst of thick Darkness.
Mbh.12.328.20900 Thus hast been freed from the attributes of Passion and Darkness.
Mbh.12.342.22337 Darkness spreads over the universe which becomes one infinite expanse of water.
Mbh.12.347.23004 Then Darkness spreads over the face of the universe, and nothing can be perceived.
Mbh.12.347.23005 From that primal Darkness arises Brahma endued with the principle of Creation.
Mbh.12.347.23006 Darkness is primeval and fraught with immortality.
Mbh.12.347.23007 Brahma that arises from primeval Darkness develops by its own potency into the idea of the universe, and assumes the form of Purusha.
Mbh.13.14.1187 I solicit boons from Him who is blazing Effulgence, beyond Darkness who is the essence of all penances, who transcends all faculties of which we are possessed and which we may devote for the purpose of comprehending him, and by knowing whom every one becomes freed from grief or sorrow.
Mbh.13.125.10958 The man who gives lamps is never subject to the attribute of Darkness.
Mbh.14.24.944 The smoke of that fire is of the form of the attribute called Darkness.
Mbh.14.31.1262 When these have been acquired, he gets many qualities that appertain to Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1445 They run continually, and have the three qualities for their essence: Darkness, Passion, and Goodness.
Mbh.14.36.1452 Goodness is the match of Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1454 Goodness is also the match of Passion, and of Goodness the match is Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1455 There where Darkness is restrained, Passion is seen to flow.
Mbh.14.36.1457 Darkness should be known to have the night or obscurity for its essence.
Mbh.14.36.1460 This is the nature of Darkness and it appears also as confined with others.
Mbh.14.36.1468 Complete delusion, ignorance; illiberality, indecision in respect of action, sleep, haughtiness, fear, cupidity, grief, censure of good acts, loss of memory, unripeness of judgment, absence of faith, violation of all rules of conduct, want of discrimination, blindness, vileness of behaviour, boastful assertions of performance when there has been no performance, presumption of knowledge in ignorance, unfriendliness or hostility, evilness of disposition, absence of faith, stupid reasoning, crookedness, incapacity for association, sinful action, senselessness, stolidity, lassitude, absence of self-control, degradation, all these qualities are known as belonging to Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1469 Whatever other states of mind, connected with delusion, exist in the world, all appertain to Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1470 Frequent ill-speaking of other people, censuring the deities and the Brahmanas, illiberality, vanity, delusion, wrath, unforgiveness, hostility towards all creatures, are regarded as the characteristics of Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1472 vain eating, these also appertain to Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1473 Indulgence in calumny, unforgiveness, animosity, vanity, and absence of faith are also said to be characteristics of Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1474 Whatever men there are in this world who are characterised by these and other faults of a similar kind, and who break through the restraints provided by the scriptures, are all regarded as belonging to the quality of Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1479 These men of evil conduct, always exhibiting the indications of their acts, sink in Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1481 Appertaining to the quality of Darkness, they sink in Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1488 Coming to sinful births and becoming Chandalas or human beings that are deaf or that lisp indistinctly, they attain to higher and higher castes, one after another in proper turn, transcending the Sudra order, and other consequences of qualities that appertain to Darkness and that abide in it in course of migrations in this world
Mbh.14.36.1491 Darkness, delusion, the great delusion, the great obscurity called wrath, and death, that blinding obscurity, these are the five great afflictions.
Mbh.14.36.1493 With respect then to its colour nature, its characteristics, and its source, I have, ye learned Brahmanas, declared to you, accurately and in due order, everything about the quality of Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1496 That, indeed, is the characteristic of Darkness, viz, the beholding of reality in what is not real.
Mbh.14.36.1497 The qualities of Darkness have been declared to you in various ways.
Mbh.14.36.1498 Duly has Darkness, in its higher and lower forms, been described to you.
Mbh.14.36.1499 That man who always bears in mind the qualities mentioned here, will surely succeed in becoming freed from all characteristics that appertain to Darkness
Mbh.14.39.1528 Passion and Goodness and Darkness are seen existing in a state of union.
Mbh.14.39.1535 As long as Darkness and Goodness exist, so long does Passion exist.
Mbh.14.39.1539 There where Darkness exists in an increased measure, in the lower creatures for example, Passion exists in a smaller measure and Goodness in a measure that is still less.
Mbh.14.39.1540 There where Passion exists in a copious measure, in creatures of middle course, Darkness exists in a smaller measure and Goodness in a measure that is still less.
Mbh.14.39.1541 There where Goodness exists in a copious measure, in creatures of upward courses, Darkness should be known to exist in a small measure and Passion in a measure that is still less.
Mbh.14.39.1547 They who abide in Darkness, being characterised by qualities that are low, sink downwards.
Mbh.14.39.1548 Darkness occurs in the Sudra; Passion in the Kshatriya; and Goodness, which is the highest, in the Brahmana.
Mbh.14.39.1554 The Sun is Goodness developed, men of evil deeds represent Darkness; the heat which travellers on their way feel is said to be a quality of Passion.
Mbh.14.39.1555 The sun representing light is Goodness; the heat is the quality of Passion; the shading or eclipse of the sun on Parvana days should be known to represent Darkness.
Mbh.14.39.1558 Among immobile objects, the quality of Darkness exists in a very large measure.
Mbh.14.39.1574 The creation of those three, viz, Goodness, Passion, and Darkness is eternal.
Mbh.14.51.2212 Born from that same unmanifest principle and attaining to the same once more, freed from the qualities of Darkness and Passion, and adhering to only the quality of Goodness, one becomes released from every sin and creates all things
Mbh.14.54.2395 Vasudeva said, Know that the three qualities of Darkness and Passion and Goodness exist, depending on me as their refuge.
Mbh.18.6.449 Sins committed by means of the body, by means of words, and by means of the mind, are all destroyed through listening to the Bharata as Darkness at sunrise.
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