SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImath varavaramunayE nama:
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
kāma eṣa krodha eṣa
rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ
mahāśano mahā-pāpmā
viddhy enam iha vairiṇam
‘Lust (kāma) it is, —hate (krodha) it is—, which is begotten of rajo-guṇa[1. See Lect: XIV for an exhaustive treatment of the gunās. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. Satva is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., Rajas is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and Tamas is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.]. This foe, here (on earth), know, is all-consuming, all-polluting.'[2. Read II-62 to 64.]
What obstructs a person in his pursuit of Jñāna-Yoga is this lust, this appetite or longing for sense-objects, such as sound etc., sharpened all the more by past habits; because the person is attached to matter, the guṇas[3. See Lect: XIV for an exhaustive treatment of the gunās. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. Satva is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., Rajas is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and Tamas is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.] of which, rising and falling, constantly influence all beings.
This lust is a most devouring (or exacting) foe, and inveigles him into its province of sense-pleasures.
This self-same lust, when hampered in its course, turns into hate (or wrath) —the most sinful— displayed against those who come in the way (of gratification), and resulting in the perpetration of violent acts against (such) creatures.
Know this lust is begotten of rajo-guṇa[4. See Lect: XIV for an exhaustive treatment of the gunās. These are the three main characteristics of matter which keep the world moving. Satva is the tendency to produce goodness, purity, etc., Rajas is the tendency to act in the world with passions; and Tamas is the tendency to sloth, evil, etc.], and it is the adversary, hostile to Jñāna-Yoga.
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