Verse 18.22
यत्तु कृत्स्नवदेकस्मिन्कार्ये सक्तमहैतुकम् ।
अतत्त्वार्थवदल्पं च तत्तामसमुदाहृतम् ॥
Transliteration
yattu kṛtsnavadekasminkārye saktamahaitukam |
atattvārthavadalpaṃ ca tattāmasamudāhṛtam ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
But that which clings to one single effect as if it were the whole, without reason, without foundation in Truth, and trivial that is declared to be Tamasic.
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And that which clings to a single object as if it were the whole, without reason, without grasp of the truth, and narrow, is called tamasic.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
Word by word
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Tamasic knowledge clings to one narrow thing as though it were everything, without reason, without grasp of what is real, and small in scope. This is the fixation of a closed mind, which treats a fragment as the whole. The verse could describe obsession with a single desire, belief or object. It completes the threefold picture of knowledge, from the vision of unity, through a view of separateness, to a blind fixation.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08