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Kapila on Devotional Qualities
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Kapila on Devotional Qualities
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From: pranob@comet.eche.ualberta.ca (Pranob Banerjee)
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Date: 20 Feb 1995 01:07:18 GMT
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From news@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca Sun Feb 19 19: 58:59 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
While browsing through Srimad Bhagavatam (translation by Swami Prabpupada)
I encountered the following three verses, which I found very relevant.
Background: Lord Kapila (incarnation of Lord Vishnu), while explaining
the SAMKHYA philosophy to his mother Devahuti, classifies the
devotional qualities into Tamasic, Rajasic and Tamasic as:
verse 3.29.8 (canto.chapter.verse#)
Devotional service executed by a person who is envious, proud, violent
and angry and who is separatist, is considered to be in the mode of
darkness.
verse 3.29.9
The worship of Deities in the temple by a separatist, with a motive for
material enjoyment, fame and opulance, is devotion in the mode of
passion.
verse 3.29.10
When a devotee worships [parasmin] supreme personality of Godhead and
offers the results of his activites in order to free himself from
the inebrieties of frutive activities, his devotion is in the mode of
goodness.
