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Maitri (Maitrāyaṇīya) Upaniṣad 3.5

Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣad 3.5

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Sanskrit

3.5

athānyatrāpyuktaṃ saṃmoho bhayaṃ viṣādo nidrā tandrī vraṇo jarā śokaḥ kṣutpipāsā kārpaṇyaṃ krodho nāstikyamajñānaṃ mātsaryaṃ vaikāruṇyaṃ mūḍhatvaṃ nirvrīḍatvaṃ nikṛtatvamuddhātatvamasamatvamiti tāmasānvitastṛṣṇā sneho rāgo lobho hiṃsā ratirdṛṣṭivyāpṛtatvamīrṣyā kāmamavasthitatvaṃ cañcalatvaṃ jihīrṣārthopārjanaṃ mitrānugrahaṇaṃ parigrahāvalambo'niṣṭeṣvindriyārtheṣu dviṣṭiriṣṭeśvabhiṣaṅga iti rājasānvitaiḥ paripūrṇa etairabhibhūta ityayaṃ bhūtātmā tasmānnānārūpāṇyāpnotītyāpnotīti ||

5. Now, it has elsewhere been said: 'The characteristics of the Dark Quality (_tamas_) are delusion, fear, despondency, sleepiness, weariness, heedlessness, old age, sorrow, hunger, thirst, wretchedness, anger, atheism (_nāstikya_), ignorance, jealousy, cruelty, stupidity, shamelessness, religious neglect, pride, unequableness.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

The characteristics of the Passionate Quality (_rajas_), on the other hand, are inner thirst, affection, emotion, covetousness, maliciousness, lust, hatred, secretiveness, envy, insatiability, unsteadfastness, fickleness, distractedness, ambitiousness, acquisitiveness, favoritism towards friends, dependence upon

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

surroundings, hatred in regard to unpleasant objects of sense, overfondness in regard to pleasant objects, sourness of utterance, gluttonousness. With these this elemental soul (bhūtātman) is filled full; with these it is "overcome" (abhibhūta). Therefore it undergoes different forms—yea, it undergoes different forms!' "

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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