सर्वद्वारेषु देहेऽस्मिन् प्रकाश उपजायते ।ज्ञानं यदा तदा विद्याद् विवृद्धं सत्त्वमित्युत ॥
sarvadvāreṣu dehe’smin prakāśa upajāyatejñānaṁ yadā tadā vidyād vivṛddhaṁ sattvamityuta
When into all the doors in the body there comes a flooding of light, a light of understanding, perception and knowledge, one should understand that there has been a great increase and uprising of the sattwic guna in the nature.
Compiled rendering · Anilbaran Roy
Essays on the Gita
The Gita applies this generalised analysis of the universal Energy to the psychological nature of man in relation to his bondage to Prakriti and the realisation of spiritual freedom.14·6 Sattwa, it tells us, is by the purity of its quality a cause of light and illumination and by virtue of that purity it produces no14·11 disease or morbidity or suffering in the nature. When into all the doors in the body there comes a flooding of light, as if the doors and windows of a closed house were opened to sunshine, a light of understanding, perception and knowledge, — when the intelligence is alert and illumined, the senses quickened, the whole mentality satisfied and full of brightness and the nervous being calmed and filled with an illumined ease and clarity, prasāda, one should understand that there has been a great increase and uprising of the sattwic guna in the nature. For knowledge and a harmonious ease and pleasure and happiness are the characteristic results of sattwa. The pleasure that is sattwic is not only that contentment which an inner clarity of satisfied will and intelligence brings with it, but all delight and content produced by the soul’s possession of itself in light or by an accord or an adequate and truthful adjustment between the regarding soul and the surrounding Nature and her offered objects of desire and perception.
