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Mbh.6.38.1775	Goodness, passion, darkness, these qualities, born of nature, bind down, O thou of mighty arms, the eternal embodied soul in the body
Mbh.6.38.1776	Amongst these, Goodness, from its unsullied nature, being enlightening and free from misery, bindeth the soul, O sinless one, with the attainment of happiness and of knowledge.
Mbh.6.38.1781	Goodness uniteth the soul with pleasure; Passion, O Bharata, uniteth with work; but darkness, veiling knowledge, uniteth with error.
Mbh.6.38.1782	Passion and darkness, being repressed, Goodness remaineth, O Bharata.
Mbh.6.41.1858	It is one of Goodness, or Passion, or Darkness'
Mbh.12.16.712	Goodness, passion, and darkness are the three attributes of the mind.
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.12.176.10629	Abandoning all of you I shall take refuge in the quality of Goodness
Mbh.12.176.10663	I have now adopted the path of Goodness.
Mbh.12.186.11226	Darkness, Passion, and Goodness are the attributes of the living agent.
Mbh.12.187.11259	Those Brahmanas again who, without attending to the duties laid down for them, became possessed of both the attributes of Goodness and Passion, and took to the professions of cattle-rearing and agriculture, became Vaisyas.
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.12.193.11604	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.12.193.11612	Every state of happiness that appears in the body or the mind is said to be due to the quality of Goodness.
Mbh.12.193.11616	Gladness, satisfaction, delight, happiness, tranquillity of heart, these are the properties of the state of Goodness.
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.12.211.12820	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.12.211.12822	Contentment, the satisfaction that arises from joy, certainty, intelligence, and memory, these are the consequences born of the attribute of Goodness.
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.12.211.12837	Amongst these, the attribute of Goodness alone is the cause through which persons of cleansed Souls succeed in attaining to Emancipation.
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.12.211.12846	That person, however, who, possessed of faith and scriptural knowledge, is observant of the attribute of Goodness, attends only to all good things, and becomes endued with moral beauty and soul free from every taint'
Mbh.12.212.12872	The attribute of Goodness, again, rests on that of Passion.
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.12.215.13007	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.12.215.13027	It should be known that the qualities of Goodness, Passion and Darkness belong to the deities and the Asuras.
Mbh.12.215.13028	Goodness is the attribute of the deities; while the two others belong to 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.12.218.13272	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.12.218.13274	Raptures, satisfaction, joy, happiness, and tranquillity, arising in the mind from any Perceptible cause or in the absence of any apparent cause, belong to the attribute of Goodness.
Mbh.12.218.13277	Whatever state of consciousness exists, with respect to either the body or the mind, united with joy or satisfaction, should be regarded as due to the quality of Goodness.
Mbh.12.223.13522	A sinless person acquires the attribute of Goodness, and having acquired it becomes cheerful.
Mbh.12.223.13523	They, however, that deviate from the attribute of Goodness, and obtain repeated rebirths, are obliged to indulge in sorrow and grief, led on by desire and the objects of the senses.
Mbh.12.234.14504	They that are well-versed in the declarations of the Vedas, that have knowledge of the Soul, that are attached to the quality of Goodness, and that are highly blessed, succeed in understanding the origin and the end of all things.
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.12.274.16846	Happiness, success, knowledge, and absence of attachment are the indications of the wakeful man in whom is present the attribute of Goodness.
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.12.301.18878	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.12.301.18887	By cultivation of the quality of Goodness Sattwa sleep is conquered, and Fear is conquered by cultivating Heedfulness.
Mbh.12.328.20901	Thou stayest now in the attributes of Goodness.
Mbh.13.142.11876	The hero, observant of the practices of heroes and devoted to that Yoga which belongs to heroes, living in the practice of Goodness, having renounced everything, having undergone the Diksha and subjugated his senses, and observing purity of both body and mind, is sure to attain to that path which is reserved for heroes.
Mbh.13.149.12537	He that has seven flames in consequence of His being identical with the deity of fire; He that has seven horses for bearing His vehicle; or, He that owns the steed called Sapta; He that is formless; He that is sinless: He that is inconceivable; He that dispels all fears; He that destroys all fears DCCCXXVI, DCCCXXXIV; He that is minute; He that is gross; He that is emaciated; He that is adipose; He that is endued with attributes; He that transcends all attributes; He that is unseizable; He that suffers Himself to be easily seized by His worshippers; He that has an excellent face; He that has for His descendants the people of the accidental regions; He that extends the creation consisting of the fivefold primal elements DCCCXXXV, DCCCXLVI; He that bears heavy weights in the form of Ananta; He that has been declared by the Vedas; He that is devoted to Yoga; He that is the lord of all Yogins; He that is the giver of all wishes; He that affords an asylum to those that seek it; He that sets Yogins to practise Yoga anew after their return to life upon the conclusion of their life of felicity in heaven; He that invests Yogins with puissance even after the exhaustion of their merits; He that has goodly leaves in the form of the Schhandas of the Vedas, Himself being the tree of the world; He that causes the winds to blow DCCCXLVII, DCCCLVI; He that is armed with the bow in the form of Rama; He that is conversant with the science of arms; He that is the rod of chastisement; He that is chastiser; He that executes all sentences of chastisement; He that has never been vanquished; He that is competent in all acts; He that sets all persons to their respective duties; He that has none to set Him to any work; He that has no Yama to slay Him DCCLVII, DCCCLXVI; He that is endued with heroism and prowess; He that has the attribute of Sattwa Goodness; He that is identical with Truth; He that is devoted to Truth and Righteousness; He that is sought by those who are resolved to achieve emancipation; or, He towards whom the universe proceeds when the dissolution comes; He that deserves to have all objects which His worshippers present unto Him; He that is worthy of being adored with hymns and flowers and other offering of reverence; He that does good to all; He that enhances the delights of all DCCCLXVII, DCCCLXV; He whose track is through the firmament; He that blazes forth in His own effulgence; He that is endued with great beauty; He that eats the offerings made on the sacrificial fire; He that dwells everywhere and is endued with supreme puissance; He that sucks the moisture of the earth in the form of the Sun; He that has diverse desires; He that brings forth all things; He that is the parent of the universe; He that has the Sun for His eye DCCCLXXVI, DCCCLXXXV; He that is Infinite; He that accepts all sacrificial offerings; He that enjoys Prakriti in the form of Mind; He that is giver of felicity; He that has taken repeated births for the protection of righteousness and the righteous; He that is First-born of all existent things; He that transcends despair in consequence of the fruition of all His wishes; He that forgives the righteous when they trip; He that is the foundation upon which the universe rests; He that is most wonderful DCCCLXXXVI, DCCCXCV; He that is existent from the beginning of Time; He that has been existing from before the birth of the Grandsire and others; He that is of a tawny hue; or, He that discovers or illumines all existent things by His rays; He that assumed the form of the great Boar; He that exists even when all things are dissolved; He that is the giver of all blessings; He that creates blessings; He that is identifiable with all blessings; He that enjoys blessings; He that is able to scatter blessings DCCCXXI, CMV; He that is without wrath; He that lies ensconced in folds in the form of the snake Sesha; or, He that is adorned with ear-rings; He that is armed with the discus; He that is endued with great prowess; He whose sway is regulated by the high precepts of the Srutis and the Smritis; He that is incapable of being described by the aid of speech; He whom the Vedantas have striven to express with the aid of speech; He that is the dew which cools those who are afflicted with the three kinds of grief; He that lives in all bodies, endued with the capacity of dispelling darkness CMVI, CMXIV; He that is divested of wrath; He that is well-skilled in accomplishing all acts by thought, word, and deed; He that can accomplish all acts within the shortest period of time; He that destroys the wicked; He that is the foremost of all forgiving persons; He that is foremost of all persons endued with knowledge; He that transcends all fear; He whose names and feats, heard and recited, lead to Righteousness CMXV, CMXXII, He that rescues the Righteous from the tempestuous ocean of the world; He that destroys the wicked; He that is Righteousness; He that dispels all evil dreams; He that destroys all bad paths for leading His worshippers to the good path of emancipation; He that protects the universe by staying in the attribute of Sattwa; He that walks along the good path; He that is Life; He that exists overspreading the universe CMXXIII, CMXXXI; He that is of infinite forms; He that is endued with infinite prosperity; He that has subdued wrath; He that destroys the fears of the righteous; He that gives just fruits, on every side, to sentient beings according to their thoughts and acts; He that is immeasurable Soul; He that bestows diverse kinds of fruits on deserving persons for their diverse acts; He that sets diverse commands on gods and men; He that attaches to every act its proper fruit CMXXXII, CMXL; He that has no beginning; He that is the receptacle of all causes as well as of the earth; He that has the goddess of Prosperity ever by his side; He that is the foremost of all heroes; He that is adorned with beautiful armlets; He that produces all creatures; He that is the original cause of the birth of all creatures; He that is the terror of all the wicked Asuras; He that is endued with terrible prowess CMXLI, CMXLIX; He that is the receptacle and abode of the five primal elements; He that gulps down His throat all creatures at the time of the universal dissolution; He whose smile is as agreeable as the sight of flowers; or, He who laughs in the form of flowers; He that is always wakeful; He that stays at the head of all creatures; He whose conduct consists of those acts which the Righteous do; He that revives the dead as in the case of Parikshit and others; He that is the initial syllable Om; He that has ordained all righteous acts CML, CMLVIII; He that displays the truth about the Supreme Soul; He that is the abode of the five life-breaths and the senses; He that is the food which supports the life of living creatures; He that causes all living creatures to live with the aid of the life-breath called Prana; He that is the great topic of every system of philosophy; He that is the One Soul in the universe; He that transcends birth, decrepitude, and death CMLIX, CMLXV; He that rescues the universe in consequence of the sacred syllable Bhuh, Bhuvah, Swah, and the others with which Homa offerings are made; He that is the great rescuer; He that is the sire of all; He that is the sire of even the Grandsire Brahman; He that is of the form of Sacrifice; He that is the Lord of all sacrifices being the great deity that is adored in them; He that is the sacrificer; He that has sacrifices for his limbs; He that upholds all sacrifices CMLXXVI, CMLXXXV; He that protects sacrifices; He that has created sacrifices; He that is the foremost of all performers of sacrifices; He that enjoys the rewards of all sacrifices; He that causes the accomplishment of all sacrifices; He that completes all sacrifices by accepting the full libation at the end; He that is identical with such sacrifices as are performed without desire of fruit; He that is the food which sustains all living creatures; He that is also the eater of that food CMLXXVI, CMLXXXIV; He that is Himself the cause of His existence; He that is self-born; He that penetrated through the solid earth and repairing to the nether regions slew Hiranyaksha and others; He that sings the Samans; He that is the delighter of Devaki; He that is the creator of all; He that is the Lord of the earth; He that is the destroyer of the sins of his worshippers CMLXXXV, CMXXCII; He that bears the conch Panchajanya in His hands; He that bears the sword of knowledge and illusion; He that sets the cycle of the Yugas to revolve ceaselessly; He that invests Himself with consciousness and senses; He that is endued with the mace of the most solid understanding.
Mbh.14.24.947	They that are conversant with sacrifices know that Samana and Vyana are from the attribute of Goodness.
Mbh.14.31.1245	Exultation, satisfaction, and joy, these three qualities appertain to Goodness
Mbh.14.32.1309	Thou art verily the one person for setting this wheel in motion, this wheel that has the quality of Goodness for its circumference, Brahmin for its nave, and the understanding for its spokes, and which never turns back
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.14.36.1453	Of Goodness the match is Passion.
Mbh.14.36.1454	Goodness is also the match of Passion, and of Goodness the match is Darkness.
Mbh.14.36.1456	There where Passion is restrained, Goodness is seen to flow.
Mbh.14.36.1464	Splendour, lightness, and faith, these are the form, that is light, of Goodness among all creatures, as regarded by all good men.
Mbh.14.38.1512	Joy, satisfaction, nobility, enlightenment, and happiness, absence of stinginess or liberality, absence of fear, contentment, disposition for faith, forgiveness, courage, abstention from injuring any creature, equability, truth, straightforwardness, absence of wrath, absence of malice, purity, cleverness, prowess, these appertain to the quality of Goodness.
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.14.39.1542	Goodness is the spring that causes the modifications of the senses.
Mbh.14.39.1544	No duty has been laid down that is higher than Goodness.
Mbh.14.39.1545	They who abide in Goodness proceed upwards.
Mbh.14.39.1548	Darkness occurs in the Sudra; Passion in the Kshatriya; and Goodness, which is the highest, in the Brahmana.
Mbh.14.39.1550	Even from a distance, the three qualities of darkness and Goodness and Passion, are seen to exist in a state of union and more collectively.
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.14.39.1560	Their oleaginous attributes appertain to Goodness
Mbh.14.39.1574	The creation of those three, viz, Goodness, Passion, and Darkness is eternal.
Mbh.14.48.2023	When the quality of Goodness predominates in that which arises from the Unmanifest, it becomes fit for immortality.
Mbh.14.48.2024	They who are conversant with Goodness applaud it highly, saying that there is nothing higher than Goodness.
Mbh.14.48.2025	By inference we know that Purusha is dependent on Goodness.
Mbh.14.48.2027	Forgiveness, courage, abstention from harm, equability, truth, sincerity, knowledge, gift, and renunciation, are said to be the characteristics of that course of conduct which arises out of Goodness.
Mbh.14.48.2028	It is by this inference that the wise believe in the identity of Purusha and Goodness, There is no doubt in this.
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.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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