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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.6.38.1783	Passion and goodness being repressed, darkness remaineth; and darkness and goodness being repressed, passion remaineth.
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.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.12.109.6198	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.12.122.6952	All the three have, therefore, the quality of Passion
Mbh.12.176.10668	Whatever passions connected with Desire are cast off by a person, all appertain to the quality of Passion.
Mbh.12.186.11226	Darkness, Passion, and Goodness are the attributes of the living agent.
Mbh.12.187.11258	They that became fond of indulging in desire and enjoying pleasures, possessed of the attributes of severity and wrath, endued with courage, and unmindful of the duties of piety and worship, these Brahmanas possessing the attribute of Passion, became Kshatriyas.
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.12.193.11613	A state of sorrow, disagreeable to oneself, that comes, is due to nothing but the quality of Passion.
Mbh.12.193.11618	Discontent, heart-burning, grief, cupidity, vindictiveness are all indications of the state of Passion.
Mbh.12.198.11843	Dharma said, Without thus setting thy heart on thy body, cast it off and be happy Go into regions that are free from the attribute of Passion.
Mbh.12.210.12773	Propelled by the quality of Rajas Passion, the Soul presides over it witnessing its revolutions.
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.12.211.12820	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.12.211.12824	Desire, wrath, error, cupidity, stupefaction, fear, and fatigue, belong to the attribute of Passion.
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.12.211.12843	Through the influence of the qualities born of Passion, all unrighteous acts are performed, and all acts fraught with earthly purposes as also all such acts as spring from desire are accomplished.
Mbh.12.212.12847	SECTION CCXIII Bhishma said, From the attribute of Passion arises delusion or loss of judgment.
Mbh.12.212.12865	They are sunk in the attribute of Passion.
Mbh.12.212.12871	The attribute of Passion rests on that of Darkness.
Mbh.12.212.12872	The attribute of Goodness, again, rests on that of Passion.
Mbh.12.212.12888	Both the origin and the destruction of the senses rest in the attribute of Passion.
Mbh.12.213.12916	That regenerate person who betakes himself to it should subdue the quality of Passion as soon as it begins to manifest itself or as soon as it begins to be powerful.
Mbh.12.213.12919	The sight of women, under even indifferent circumstances, fills all weak-minded men with Passion.
Mbh.12.213.12922	That wise man who has betaken himself to the practice of this vow should, with an extended and enlightened mind, burn the sins in his mind which are all due to the quality 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.12.213.12943	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.12.214.12968	He who betakes himself to action, impelled thereto by propensities fraught with the attribute of Passion, obtains much misery in this world and at last sinks into hell.
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.12.215.13027	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.12.216.13077	By taking that food abstemiously, one's sins born of Passion begin to fade.
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.12.218.13275	Discontent, regret, grief, cupidity, and vindictiveness, causeless or occasioned by any perceptible cause, are the indications of the attribute known as Passion.
Mbh.12.218.13278	Whatever state of consciousness exists united with any feeling of discontent or cheerlessness should be regarded as occasioned by an accession of the attribute of Passion into the mind.
Mbh.12.223.13520	They, however, who are overwhelmed with Passion and loss of judgment, do not know this, they whose understanding is lost, sink under the weight of misfortune.
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.12.300.18849	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.12.301.18878	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.12.328.20900	Thus hast been freed from the attributes of Passion and Darkness.
Mbh.13.115.10290	Those persons, however, who are for gratifying the sensation of taste, should be known as Rakshasas wedded to the attribute of Passion.
Mbh.13.164.13646	Those Righteous men who have in this life been blessed with affluence, acting of their own motion, take particular care of their souls so that they may not, in their next lives, have to take birth as persons with the attribute of Passion predominating in them.
Mbh.14.24.945	The attribute that is known by the name of Passion is in its ashes.
Mbh.14.31.1246	Cupidity, wrath, and hatred, these three qualities are said to appertain to Passion.
Mbh.14.36.1445	They run continually, and have the three qualities for their essence: Darkness, Passion, and Goodness.
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.14.36.1455	There where Darkness is restrained, Passion is seen to flow.
Mbh.14.36.1456	There where Passion is restrained, Goodness is seen to flow.
Mbh.14.36.1461	Passion is said to have activity for its essence.
Mbh.14.37.1500	SECTION XXXVII Brahman said, Ye best of beings, I shall now declare to you accurately what the quality of Passion is.
Mbh.14.37.1501	Ye highly blessed ones, do you understand what those qualities are that appertain to Passion, Injuring others, beauty, toil, pleasure and pain, cold and heat, lordship or power, war, peace, arguments, dissatisfaction, endurance might, valour, pride, wrath, exertion, quarrel or collision, jealousy, desire, malice, battle, the sense of meum or mineness, protection of others, slaughter, bonds, and affliction, buying and selling, lopping off, cutting, piercing and cutting off the coat of mail that another has worn fierceness, cruelty, villifying, pointing out the faults of others, thoughts entirely devoted to worldly affairs, anxiety, animosity, reviling of others, false speech, false or vain gifts, hesitancy and doubt, boastfulness of speech, dispraise and praise, laudation, prowess, defiance, attendance as on the sick and the weak, obedience to the commands of preceptors and parents, service or ministrations, harbouring of thirst or desire, cleverness or dexterity of conduct, policy heedlessness, contumely, possessions, and diverse decorations that prevail in the world among men, women, animals, inanimate things, houses, grief, incredulousness, vows and regulations, actions with expectation of good result, diverse acts of public charity, the rites in respect of Swaha salutations, rites of Swadha and Vashat, officiating at the sacrifices of others, imparting of instruction, performance of sacrifices, study, making of gifts, acceptance of gifts, rites of expiation, auspicious acts, the wish to have this and that, affection generated by the merits of the object for which or whom it is felt, treachery, deception, disrespect and respect, theft, killing, desire of concealment, vexation, wakefulness, ostentation, haughtiness, attachment, devotion, contentment, exultation, gambling, indulgence in scandal, all relations arising out of women, attachment to dancing, instrumental music and songs, all these qualities, ye learned Brahmanas, have been said to belong to Passion.
Mbh.14.37.1502	Those men on Earth who meditate on the past, present, and the future, who are devoted to the aggregate of three, viz, Religion, Wealth, and Pleasure, who acting from impulse of desire, exult on attaining to affluence in respect of every desire, are said to be enveloped by Passion.
Mbh.14.37.1507	The qualities of Passion have thus been declared to you in their variety.
Mbh.14.37.1509	The man who always understands these qualities, succeeds in always freeing himself from all of them which appertain to Passion
Mbh.14.39.1528	Passion and Goodness and Darkness are seen existing in a state of union.
Mbh.14.39.1533	As long as goodness exists, so long does Passion exist.
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.14.39.1546	They who abide in Passion remain in the middle.
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.14.39.1559	The qualities appertaining to Passion are those properties of theirs which undergo constant changes.
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.

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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