Verse 12
Which one has won· Verses 12–18
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12Clarity, passion and darkness are the strands of the living being and never of me. They are born of the mind, and by them, as he clings to beings, he is bound. 13When clarity, shining and clear and kind, overcomes the other two, then a man is joined with happiness, with dharma and knowledge and the rest. 14When passion overcomes darkness and clarity, passion, which is clinging and dividing and unsteady, then he is joined with pain, with work, with fame and with wealth. 15When darkness overcomes passion and clarity, darkness, which is bewildered and dissolving and dull, he is joined with sorrow and delusion, with sleep, with harming and with hoping.
16When the mind grows clear, and the senses are at rest, and there is no fear in the body and the mind clings to nothing, know that to be clarity, and my own ground. 17Changing under action, and unsteady; the thoughts never turning back; the limbs ill at ease; the mind wandering. Look for passion by these. 18The mind sinking and melting away, unable to take hold of a thought; the mind lost; darkness; exhaustion. Take that for darkness.