| 5. Intelligence,
wisdom, nonillusion patience, truth, selfrestraint, calmness, pleasure,
pain birth, death, fear, and security ; innocence, equanimity, contentment,
austerity, beneficence, fame, shame, (these) different kinds of dispositions
of beings arise from Me alone.Intelligence (buddhi) is the power which the
inner sense (antahkarana) has of understanding subtle objects of thought.
He, indeed, is said to be intelligent who is possessed of this power. Wisdom
is the knowledge of the Self and other such things. Nonillusion consists
in acting with discrimination when anything has to be done or known at the
moment. Patience: not being agitated in mind when assaulted or abused. Truth:
giving utterance to ones own actual experience of things, as heard or seen,
with a view to impress it on the mind of another. Selfrestraint ; quieting
the external senses. Calmness ; the tranquillity of the inner sense or antahkarana
Innocence: not injuring living beings. Contentment: being satisfied with
ones present acquisitions. Austerity: bodily torture accompanied with the
restraint of the senses. Beneficence: sharing (ones own things with others
as far as ones own means may permit. Shame: due to dharma. Shame: due to
adharma. All these different dispositions of living beings mentioned above,
such as intelligence, arise from Me alone, the Lord (Isvara), according
to their respective karma. |
