The entire content of this mail is from Shri V N Gopala Desikan's Srimad Bhagavad Gita, published by Vishishtadvaita Research Centre, Chennai and The Bhagavad Gita by Swami Chidbhavananda published by Ramakrishna Mission
The Three Gunas Give Impetus to Karma - 18-40
1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 18 - Moksha Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 32
Adharmam dharmam iti ya manyate tamasa avruta I
Sarvarthan viparittan cha buddhih sa partha tamasi II sloka 32
अधर्मं धर्मं इति य मन्यते तमसा आवृत I
सर्वथान् विपरित्तान् च बुद्धिः स पार्थ तमसि II श्लोक 32
That which, enveloped in darkness, regards adharma as dharma and views all things in a perverted manner, that intellect O Partha, is tamasika.
A perverted intelligence is that which regards the good as bad and bad as good. A patient refuses to take the prescribed medicine stating that it is not to his taste and insists on helping himself to a dish palatable to him though it would aggravate his disease. Going to school appears troublesome and purposeless to the immature understanding of a boy of tamasika nature. Playing truant and joining the vagrant seems to him the best thing that he can do. There are grown up people who think that industry is purposeless and that a life of ease and repose is prudential. They hold that the hard working ones do not know the joy of quietism. Enquiry into the spiritual aspect of life is distasteful to them. It appears to them that the study of vedanta and its practie may take place in the evening of life; any early thought bestowed on them is premature and purposeless. They delight in derogatory talks about others and waste their own time in slander. The virtuous appear bad and the vicious good in their eyes. Virile body building games and exercises do not appeal to them; instead a slothful sedentary pastime like a play of cards engages them day and night. Without the least compunction, they present themselves uninvited at parties and entertainments. The tamasika intellect guides people in all these irregular ways.
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