The dispositions and the intellectual creation

SK 43

The bhāva (dispositions) beginning with virtue are seen [to be of three kinds]: innate, derived from nature, and acquired [by modification]; they rest upon the instrument [the intellect], while [their effects], beginning with the embryo, rest upon the [bodily] effect.

SK 44

By virtue [comes] ascent upward; by vice [comes] descent downward; by knowledge [comes] release; and by the reverse [of knowledge, i.e. error] bondage is held [to result].

SK 45

From dispassion [comes] absorption into prakṛti / pradhāna / mūlaprakṛti (nature); from rajasic attachment comes transmigration; from lordliness [comes] unobstructedness; and from the reverse [of lordliness] comes the reverse of that [obstruction].

SK 46

This is the pratyaya-sarga (intellectual creation), named [under the four heads of] viparyaya / aśakti / tuṣṭi / siddhi (error, disability, contentment, and attainment); arising from the disequilibrium and clash of the guṇa (sattva, rajas, tamas) (guṇas), its subdivisions are fifty.

SK 47

The subdivisions of error are five; those of disability, [arising] from defect of the instruments, are twenty-eight; contentment is ninefold; and attainment is eightfold.

SK 48

The subdivision of obscurity (tamas) is eightfold; of delusion (moha) [also eightfold]; great delusion (mahā-moha) is tenfold; gloom (tāmisra) is eighteenfold; and so likewise is blinding gloom (andha-tāmisra).

SK 49

The injuries to the eleven organs, together with the injuries to the mahat / buddhi (intellect), are declared to be disability (viparyaya / aśakti / tuṣṭi / siddhi (aśakti)); the seventeen injuries to the intellect [arise] from the failure [the reverse] of contentment and attainment.

SK 50

Four [contentments] are internal, named after prakṛti / pradhāna / mūlaprakṛti (nature), [the right] means, time, and good fortune; and five are external, [arising] from abstention from [the five] objects [of sense]. Thus nine contentments (viparyaya / aśakti / tuṣṭi / siddhi (tuṣṭi)) are held.

SK 51

Reasoning, [oral] instruction, study, the three [kinds of] removal of suffering, the gaining of [good] friends, and [pure] giving — [these are] the eight attainments (viparyaya / aśakti / tuṣṭi / siddhi (siddhi)). The threefold [hindrance] preceding [these] attainments is the goad [namely error, disability, and contentment].

SK 52

Without the bhāva (dispositions) there is no liṅga (mark-body), and without the mark-body there is no accomplishment of the dispositions. Hence a twofold creation proceeds: the one called the [creation of the] mark-body and the one called the [creation of the] dispositions.