Guest guest Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 Swami! Three gunas or attributes such as rajas, tamas and sattva are said to bind man. Does a sattvika quality also bind man? Is that also a bondage? Sai Baba: These three attributes only bind man. Your life is conditioned by them. All your deeds and expressions are governed by them. They monitor your conduct and behaviour. Even sattvika qualities also chain you. For example, you are confined with an iron chain. Is that not bondage? You may be confined with a silver chain. It is also bondage. It may be now a gold chain this time that binds you. Is it not bondage? After all, the three chains differ only in the composition of the metal. After all, each is a chain and nothing more though its value may differ from that of the other. Thus, the attributes bind or limit you. Here the iron chain is compared to that of 'tamas', dullness or inertia. The silver chain is like the ` rajasika ' quality, active, energetic, passionate, and the gold chain is like the ` sattvika ' nature, pure, steady; good. But divinity is beyond these three `gunas'. It is, in fact, attributeless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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