Ignorance - AncientVoice

Mbh.5.42.2266	Ignorance, assuming the form of Yama, cannot devour that learned man who controlled his desires in this manner.
Mbh.6.37.1746	Absence of vanity, absence of ostentation, abstention from injury, forgiveness, uprightness, devotion to preceptor, purity, constancy, self-restraint, indifference to objects of sense, absence of egoism, perception of the misery and evil of birth, death, decrepitude and disease freedom from attachment, absence of sympathy for son, wife, home, and the rest, and constant equanimity of heart on attainment of good and evil, unswerving devotion to me without meditation on anything else, frequenting of lonely places, distaste for concourse of men constancy in the knowledge of the relation of the individual self to the supreme, perception of the object of the knowledge of truth, all this is called Knowledge; all that which is contrary to this is Ignorance
Mbh.12.129.7309	Ignorance leads to barrenness of invention in respect of means.
Mbh.12.158.9430	Ignorance is the spring of misery.
Mbh.12.158.9438	Ignorance has its origin in covetousness.
Mbh.12.158.9440	Ignorance exists there where covetousness exists.
Mbh.12.178.10770	I, however, see it to be destructive of Ignorance.
Mbh.12.203.12320	Ignorance begets Delusion.
Mbh.12.203.12323	Surcharged with Ignorance, and sunk in the mire of worldly objects, one cannot enjoy the sweets of contentment or tranquillity.
Mbh.12.204.12373	The Understanding flowing from Ignorance, and possessed of the senses and attributes, runs towards external objects, like a river issuing from a mountain summit and flowing towards other regions.
Mbh.12.210.12759	Indeed, even as those propensities and possessions born of Ignorance and Delusion, and inanimate in respect of their nature, are united with Soul when reborn, after the same manner, those other propensities and aspirations of the Soul that have their gaze directed towards Brahma become united with it, coming to it directly from Brahma itself
Mbh.12.210.12761	Nor have they any necessary connection with even the Chit-Soul defiled by Ignorance
Mbh.12.210.12766	It is without attributes, This universe that we perceive hath been declared in the Vedas to be due to Ignorance or Delusion.
Mbh.12.210.12774	Like oilmen pressing oilseeds in their machine, the consequences born of Ignorance, assailing the universe of creatures which is moistened by Rajas, press or grind it in that wheel.
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.12.211.12815	All faults, therefore, that are born of Ignorance, should be closely examined and the idea of Self which has its origin in Ignorance, and which is productive of misery, should be avoided.
Mbh.12.211.12819	It is like Darkness and is born of Ignorance.
Mbh.12.214.12988	The Ignorance which has Knowledge for its resting ground, extends its influence over all the three states of waking, dreaming and dreamless slumber.
Mbh.12.214.12989	The Knowledge, again, that follows the Understanding, is assailed by Ignorance
Mbh.12.216.13084	The birth and death of creatures always depend upon the cause constituted by original Ignorance or Avidya.
Mbh.12.217.13181	Some are of opinion that there is rebirth and that it is caused by Ignorance, the desire for acts, cupidity, heedlessness, and adherence to other faults.
Mbh.12.217.13182	They say that Ignorance Avidya is the soul.
Mbh.12.218.13219	Janadeva said, O illustrious one, if no person retains any knowledge after departing from this state of being, if, indeed, this is true, where then is the difference between Ignorance and Knowledge?
Mbh.12.221.13408	But though in reality the person or the chit never does anything, yet through the influence of Ignorance a consciousness in respect of angry overspreads itself on it.
Mbh.12.223.13609	Through the action of Ignorance, Brahma causes the attributes of materiality to invest the Chit or Soul which is immaterial spirit having knowledge only for its attribute.
Mbh.12.253.15420	Ignorance is the root of that tree, and heedlessness is the water that gives it sustenance.
Mbh.12.274.16852	All those seventeen with Avidya or Ignorance making eighteen, dwelling in the body, exist attached to him who owns the body.
Mbh.12.276.16912	When I know that Death does not wait here for any one but snatches all away suddenly and without notice, how can I possibly wait for his coming thus enveloped in a coat of Ignorance and heedlessly attending to my concerns?
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.12.278.17030	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.12.285.17911	Ignorance, attachment and error, heedlessness, stupefaction, and terror, meanness, cheerlessness, sleep, and procrastination, these, when brought about by particular causes, are the properties of Tamas.
Mbh.12.285.17953	As regards the man of Knowledge, whatever acts have been done by him in past times while he was steeped in Ignorance and whatever acts fraught with great iniquity he does after attainment of Knowledge, he destroys both by Knowledge as his sole means.
Mbh.12.299.18756	The Swan said, The world is enveloped by the darkness of Ignorance.
Mbh.12.302.19032	The creation of Mahan or Virat and Consciousness, by Hiranyagarbha, is the creation of Ignorance
Mbh.12.302.19033	Ascription of attributes worthy of worship and the destruction thereof, called respectively by the names of Ignorance and Knowledge by persons learned by the interpretation of the Srutis, then arose, referring to this, that, or the other of the three viz, Akshara, Hiranyagarbha, or Virat
Mbh.12.302.19062	It is in this way that the Mahan-Soul Hiranyagarbha, becoming united with Prakriti and invested with Ignorance, undergoes modifications and becomes conscious of Self.
Mbh.12.302.19063	Uniting with the attributes of Sattwa and Rajas and Tamas, he becomes identified with diverse creatures belonging to diverse orders of Being, in consequence of his forgetfulness and his waiting upon Ignorance.
Mbh.12.303.19083	Invested with Ignorance he regards himself as robed sometimes in white cloth and sometimes in full dress consisting of four pieces or as lying on floors instead of on beds or bedsteads or with hands and feet contracted like those of frogs or as seated upright in the attitude of ascetic contemplation, or as' clad in rags or as lying or sitting under the canopy of heaven or within mansions built of bricks and stone or on rugged stones or on ashes or bare stones or on the bare earth or on beds or on battlefields or in water or in mire or on wooden planks or on diverse kinds of beds; or impelled by desire of fruits, he regards himself as clad in a scant piece of cloth made of grass or as totally nude or as robed in silk or in skin of the black antelope or in cloth made of flax or in sheep-skin or in tiger-skin or in lion-skin or in fabric of hemp, or in barks of birch or in cloths made of the produce of prickly plants, or in vestures made of threads woven by worms or of torn rags or in diverse other kinds of cloth too numerous to mention.
Mbh.12.303.19090	In consequence of his being invested with Ignorance, the Soul adopts different attributes of Sattwa and Rajas and Tamas, and Righteousness and Wealth and pleasure.
Mbh.12.303.19102	It is in consequence of this Ignorance that Jiva regards these sorrows to be his and imagines them as pursuing him.
Mbh.12.303.19103	Indeed, O monarch, through that Ignorance it is that Jiva imagines he should anyhow cross those sorrows, and that he should, going into the regions of the gods, enjoy the felicity that awaits all his good acts.
Mbh.12.303.19104	It is through Ignorance that he thinks he should enjoy and endure these delights and these woes here in this world Through Ignorance Jiva thinks, I should secure my happiness.
Mbh.12.303.19131	Invested with Ignorance, the Soul thus thinks of himself
Mbh.12.304.19132	SECTION CCCV Vasishtha said, It is thus, in consequence of his Ignorance and his association with others that are invested with Ignorance, that Jiva has recourse to millions and millions of births every one of which has dissolution in the end.
Mbh.12.304.19133	In consequence of his transformation into Chit invested with Ignorance, Jiva betakes himself to millions of abodes one of which is liable to end in destruction, among intermediate beings and men and the deities.
Mbh.12.304.19134	In consequence of Ignorance, Jiva, like Chandramas, has to wax and wane thousands and thousands of times.
Mbh.12.304.19142	Invested with Ignorance, Jiva repeatedly and continually takes birth in the fifteen portions named above.
Mbh.12.304.19153	Indeed, in consequence of its devotion to Ignorance, Jiva, though characterised by Knowledge becomes repeatedly associated with Ignorance.
Mbh.12.305.19202	Only the highest Rishis conversant with the Sankhya and the Yoga systems know that Supreme Soul which Sankhya and Yogins and believers in all other systems say is beyond the Understanding, which is regarded as Knower and endued with the highest wisdom in consequence of its casting off all consciousness of identification with Prakriti, which transcends the attribute of Ignorance or Error, which is Unmanifest, which is beyond all attributes, which is called the Supreme, which is dissociated from all attributes, which ordains all things, which is Eternal and Immutable, which overrules Prakriti and all the attributes born of Prakriti, and which, transcending the four and twenty topics of enquiry, forms the twenty-fifth.
Mbh.12.306.19222	I therefore, desire to hear thee once more discourse to me on those same incidents of unity and multiplicity, on him who is knowing, on what is destitute of knowledge, on Jiva-soul, Knowledge, Ignorance.
Mbh.12.306.19231	With-drawing the senses from their objects by the aid of the mind, one possessed of intelligence, having made oneself pure, should agreeably to the two and twenty modes of transmitting the Prana breath, unite the Jiva-soul with That which transcends the four and twentieth topic called Ignorance or Prakriti which is regarded by the wise as dwelling in every part of the body and as transcending decay and destruction.
Mbh.12.307.19302	Listen now to me as I tell thee what is Vidya knowledge and what is Avidya Ignorance, one after the other.
Mbh.12.307.19383	In the Yoga philosophy, it is said that Brahma, which is the essence of knowledge without duality, becomes Jiva only when invested with Ignorance.
Mbh.12.308.19410	Though awakened by the twenty-sixth which is Pure Intelligence, Jiva still becomes subject to Ignorance.
Mbh.12.308.19459	In consequence of Ignorance of Brahma, the man of foolish soul hath repeatedly to come back into this world.
Mbh.12.308.19462	If in course of time he succeeds in crossing that Ocean of Ignorance in which he is sunk, he then succeeds in avoiding rebirth altogether and attaining to identity with the Supreme Soul.
Mbh.12.308.19463	The Ocean of Ignorance is terrible.
Mbh.12.308.19466	Since thou, O king, hast been freed from that eternal and limitless Ocean of Ignorance, thou, hast, therefore become freed from Rajas and also Tamas
Mbh.12.318.19851	The Ignorant Jiva, and the Knowing or Intelligent are both Purusha without attributes for it is Purusha that becomes Jiva when invested with Ignorance.
Mbh.12.318.19941	Impelled by Ignorance, all men meet with death and attain, O king, to birth that is the cause of acts
Mbh.12.318.19942	Divested of Knowledge, all orders of men, dragged by terrible Ignorance, fall into varied orders of being due to the principles that flow from Prakriti.
Mbh.12.320.20212	Whether the Unmanifest or the Manifest be their cause, or whether the two viz, the Supreme or Purusha and the Manifest or atoms be regarded as their cause, or fourthly, whether the four together viz, the Supreme or Purusha and his Maya and Jiva and Avidya or Ignorance be the cause, they that are conversant with Adhyatma behold Prakriti as the cause of all creatures.
Mbh.13.14.1535	Thou art all acts that creatures do, thou art the joy and sorrow that flow from those acts, thou art the absence of joy and sorrow, thou art that Ignorance which is the indestructible seed of Desire, thou art the high origin of Mind, thou art Puissance, and thou art Eternity
Mbh.13.16.1617	Alas, so long I was steeped in Ignorance; for this long period I was a senseless fool, since I had no knowledge of thee that art the Supreme Deity, thee that art the only eternal Entity as can be only known by all persons endued with wisdom.
Mbh.13.17.1903	Thou art the primeval Ignorance or Tamas that is known by the name of Rahu.
Mbh.13.17.2000	Thou art he that frees creatures from the effects of all acts belonging to previous lives as well as those accomplished in the present life and from all the bonds due to Ignorance and Desire.
Mbh.13.17.2050	Thou art Nishachara as thou enjoyest all things, being invested with Ignorance
Mbh.13.17.2615	Thou art the foundation upon which rests that Ignorance which is called Pradhana and which, consisting of the three attributes of Sattwa, Rajas, and Tamas is the cause whence the universe has sprung.
Mbh.13.94.8567	Before Ignorance assails the world and envelops all things in darkness, I shall go to heaven for good
Mbh.14.45.1874	It is produced by variegated Ignorance.

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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