Verset 18.28
अयुक्तः प्राकृतः स्तब्धः शठो नैष्कृतिकोऽलसः ।
विषादी दीर्घसूत्री च कर्ता तामस उच्यते ॥
Translittération
ayuktaḥ prākṛtaḥ stabdhaḥ śaṭho naiṣkṛtiko'lasaḥ |
viṣādī dīrghasūtrī ca kartā tāmasa ucyate ||
Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Traduction
Unsteady, vulgar, unbending, cheating, malicious, lazy, desponding and procrastinating such an agent is called Tamasic.
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Undisciplined, coarse, obstinate, deceitful, malicious, lazy, despondent and procrastinating: such a doer is called tamasic.
Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 de plus
Mot à mot
Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explication
The tamasic doer is undisciplined, crude, stubborn, deceitful, spiteful, lazy, gloomy and given to putting things off. The list mixes moral faults with failures of energy and care. It portrays a person who neither acts well nor fully avoids action, but drifts and delays. Procrastination appearing alongside deceit is telling: the Gita treats inertia (tamas) as a serious obstacle, not a harmless habit. This completes the threefold picture of the doer.
Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08