14.7 रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम्।तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसङ्गेन देहिनम्
rajo rāg
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rajaḥ—mode of passion;rāga-ātmakam—of the nature of passion;viddhi—know;tṛiṣhṇā—desires;saṅga—association;samudbhavam—arises from;tat—that;nibadhnāti—binds;kaunteya—Arjun, the son of Kunti;karma-saṅgena—through attachment to fruitive actions;dehinam—the embodied soul
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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You should know that Rajas is of the nature of desire and is a source of craving-attachment; and it binds the embodied one by attachment to action, O son of Kunti!
Passion, engendered by thirst for pleasure and attachment, binds the soul through its fondness for activity.
Know, O Arjuna, that Rajas is of the nature of passion springing from thirst and attachment. It binds the embodied self with attachment to work.
Know rajas to be of the nature of passion, born of hankering and attachment. O son of Kunti, that binds the embodied one through attachment to action.
Know thou Rajas to be of the nature of passion, the source of thirst (for sensual enjoyment) and attachment; it binds fast, O Arjuna, the embodied one by attachment to action!
14.9 सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः कर्मणि भारत।ज्ञानमावृत्य तु तमः प्रमादे सञ्जयत्युत
sattvaṃ sukhe sañjayati rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata | jñānam
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sattvam—mode of goodness;sukhe—to happiness;sañjayati—binds;rajaḥ—mode of passion;karmaṇi—toward actions;bhārata—Arjun, the son of Bharat;jñānam—wisdom;āvṛitya—clouds;tu—but;tamaḥ—mode of ignorance;pramāde—to delusion;sañjayati—binds;uta—indeed
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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O descendant of Bharata! The Sattva fully dominates the Embodied in the field of happiness; the Rajas in action; but the Tamas also totally dominates in the field of negligence, by veiling knowledge.
Purity brings happiness, Passion commotion, and Ignorance, which obscures wisdom, leads to a life of failure.
Sattva generates attachment to pleasure, Rajas to action, O Arjuna. But Tamas, veiling knowledge, generates attachment to negligence.
O scion of the Bharata dynasty, sattva attaches one to happiness, rajas to action, while tamas, covering up knowledge, leads to inadvertence also.
Sattwa attaches to happiness, Rajas to action, O Arjuna, while Tamas, shrouding knowledge, attaches to heedlessness only!
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गुणत्रयविभागयोग
Chapter 14: Tell Apart the Three Gunas
guṇatrayavibhāgayoga
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14.8 तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम्।प्रमादालस्यनिद्राभिस्तन्निबध्नाति भारत
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Word meanings
tamaḥ—mode of ignorance;tu—but;ajñāna-jam—born of ignorance;viddhi—know;mohanam—illusion;sarva-dehinām—for all the embodied souls;pramāda—negligence;ālasya—laziness;nidrābhiḥ—and sleep;tat—that;nibadhnāti—binds;bhārata—Arjun, the son of Bharat
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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But, you should also know that Tamas is born of ignorance and deludes all the Embodied; it binds them with negligence, laziness, and sleep, O descendant of Bharata!
But Ignorance, the product of darkness, stupefies the senses in all embodied beings, binding them by chains of folly, indolence and lethargy.
Know that Tamas is born of false knowledge and deludes all embodied selves. It binds, O Arjuna, with negligence, indolence and sleep.
On the other hand, know tamas, which deludes all embodied beings, to be born of ignorance. O scion of the Bharata dynasty, that binds through inadvertence, laziness and sleep.
But know thou Tamas to be born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds fast, O Arjuna, by heedlessness, sleep and indolence!
