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तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम्।सुखसङ्गेन बध्नाति ज्ञानसङ्गेन चानघ।।14.6।।

tatra sattvaṁ nirmalatvāt prakāśhakam anāmayam sukha-saṅgena badhnāti jñāna-saṅgena chānagha

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 14, Verse 6
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Of these, sattva, which is luminous and healthy due to its stainlessness, binds one by attachment to happiness and knowledge, O sinless one.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: of these, goodness, being pure, is illuminating and free from disease, it binds through attachment to happiness and knowledge, beginning a detailed description of each quality's specific character, starting with the most favorable one.

In life: even the most favorable state, calm clarity, still involves a form of binding attachment, to the pleasantness of the calm itself, worth noticing rather than assuming this state is entirely free of subtle attachment.

Teaching: notice, even during your calmest, clearest periods, whether you're developing an attachment to maintaining that calm specifically, that subtle attachment is worth being aware of even within an otherwise favorable state.

tatraamongst these
sattvammode of goodness
nirmalatvātbeing purest
prakāśhakamilluminating
anāmayamhealthy and full of well-being
sukhahappiness
saṅgenaattachment
badhnātibinds
jñānaknowledge
saṅgenaattachment
chaalso
anaghaArjun, the sinless one

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
14.6 तत्र of these? सत्त्वम् purity? निर्मलत्वात् from its stainlessness? प्रकाशकम् luminous? अनामयम् healthy? सुखसङ्गेन by attachment to happiness? बध्नाति binds? ज्ञानसङ्गेन by attachment to knowledge? च and? अनग O sinless one.Commentary Sattva is stainless like the crystal. It lays for one the trap of happiness and knowledge. It is a golden fetter. A Sattvic man compares himself with others and rejoices in his excellence. He is puffed up with his knowledge. His heart is filled with pride when he thinks that he,has more comforts or more pleasant experiences. He thinks? I am happy I am wise? and so he is bound as it were. These ideas really belong to the field but they are transferred through superimposition to the Self on account of the force of SattvaGuna.Rajas and Tamas are pitfalls on the path of knowledge.This attachment to happiness is an illusion. This is ignorance. An attribute of the object cannot belong to the subject. All the alities from desire to firmness (Cf.XIII.6) belong to the field. From ignorance? nondiscrimination is born and so the individual self is not able to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent? the subject and the object.Knowledge is an attribute of the Antahkarana (inner instrument? viz.? mind? intellect? the unconscious and the ego) but not of the Self. It if were an attribute of the Self? it could not produce attachment and bondage. Sattva binds the soul to knowledge through attachment.