Verse 18.29

Verse 18.29: “(Now,) of Intellect and of Tenacity the triple types based upon (the three) Guna-constituents hear as I explain (them) exhaustively and individually, Oh Dhananjaya. (690)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Now of Intellect viz. the mirror, into which a person, individual soul, (living) in the locality of ignorance, wearing the apparel of infatuation and bedecked with ornaments in the form of dubiousness, looks and which reveals to him the full beauty of his lineaments—that intellect and its flow are three-fold. Is there anything in the world that has not become three-fold following the three-fold Guna-constituents, such as Sattva, etc.? Where is to be found any fire-wood in which there is not (latent) fire? In that way what is there in the discernible world that is not three-fold? Therefore, the intellect is also made three-fold according to the three Guna-constituents; similarly (three-fold) is Tenacity (dhṛti) also. Now, I shall explain to you distinctively the three types of these with their respective signs. Of these two, Intellect and Tenacity, I shall first speak of the (three) types of Intellect. There are three ways viz. the best—the middle—and the worst, open to the being coming into the worldly affairs. These three well-known ways (actions) are i) day-to-day and occasional, ii) fruit-motived, and iii) forbidden, and it is on account of these that the individual souls find themselves in the grip of dreadful mundane existence.