BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:32

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:32

 

adharmam dharmam iti ya

manyate tamasavrta

sarvarthan viparitams ca

buddhih sa partha tamasi

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

adharmam--irreligion; dharmam--religion; iti--thus; ya--which;

manyate--thinks; tamasa--by illusion; avrta--covered;

sarva-arthan--all things; viparitan--in the wrong direction; ca--also;

buddhih--intelligence; sa--that; partha--O son of Prtha; tamasi--in

the mode of ignorance.

 

TRANSLATION

 

That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and

religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness,

and strives always in the wrong direction, O Partha, is in the mode of

ignorance.

 

PURPORT

 

Intelligence in the mode of ignorance is always working the opposite

of the way it should. It accepts religions which are not actually

religions and rejects actual religion. Men in ignorance understand a

great soul to be a common man and accept a common man as a great soul.

They think truth to be untruth and accept untruth as truth. In all

activities they simply take the wrong path; therefore their

intelligence is in the mode of ignorance.

 

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