BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:28

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:28

 

ayuktah prakrtah stabdhah

satho naiskrtiko 'lasah

visadi dirgha-sutri ca

karta tamasa ucyate

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

ayuktah--not referring to the scriptural injunctions;

prakrtah--materialistic; stabdhah--obstinate; sathah--deceitful;

naiskrtikah--expert in insulting others; alasah--lazy; visadi--morose;

dirgha-sutri--procrastinating; ca--also; karta--worker; tamasah--in

the mode of ignorance; ucyate--is said to be.

 

TRANSLATION

 

The worker who is always engaged in work against the injunctions of

the scripture, who is materialistic, obstinate, cheating and expert in

insulting others, and who is lazy, always morose and procrastinating

is said to be a worker in the mode of ignorance.

 

PURPORT

 

In the scriptural injunctions we find what sort of work should be

performed and what sort of work should not be performed. Those who do

not care for those injunctions engage in work not to be done, and such

persons are generally materialistic. They work according to the modes

of nature, not according to the injunctions of the scripture. Such

workers are not very gentle, and generally they are always cunning and

expert in insulting others. They are very lazy; even though they have

some duty, they do not do it properly, and they put it aside to be

done later on. Therefore they appear to be morose. They procrastinate;

anything which can be done in an hour they drag on for years. Such

workers are situated in the mode of ignorance.

 

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