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anubandhaḿ kṣayaḿ hiḿsām anapekṣya ca pauruṣam mohād ārabhyate karma yat tat tāmasam ucyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.25 That action performed in illusion, in disregard of scriptural injunctions, and without concern...

mukta-sańgo ’nahaḿ-vādī dhṛty-utsāha-samanvitaḥ siddhy-asiddhyor nirvikāraḥ kartā sāttvika ucyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.26 One who performs his duty without association with the modes of material nature, without...

rāgī karma-phala-prepsur lubdho hiḿsātmako ’śuciḥ harṣa-śokānvitaḥ kartā rājasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.27 The worker who is attached to work and the fruits of work, desiring to enjoy those fruits,...

ayuktaḥ prākṛtaḥ stabdhaḥ śaṭho naiṣkṛtiko ’lasaḥ viṣādī dīrgha-sūtrī ca kartā tāmasa ucyate Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.28 The worker who is always engaged in work against the injunctions of the scripture, who is...

buddher bhedaḿ dhṛteś caiva guṇatas tri-vidhaḿ śṛṇu procyamānam aśeṣeṇa pṛthaktvena dhanañ-jaya Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.29 O winner of wealth, now please listen as I tell you in detail of the different kinds of...

pravṛttiḿ ca nivṛttiḿ ca kāryākārye bhayābhaye bandhaḿ mokṣaḿ ca yā vetti buddhiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.30 O son of Pritha, that understanding by which one knows what ought to be done and...

yayā dharmam adharmaḿ ca kāryaḿ cākāryam eva ca ayathāvat prajānāti buddhiḥ sā pārtha rājasī Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.31 O son of Pritha, that understanding which cannot distinguish between religion and irreligion,...

adharmaḿ dharmam iti yā manyate tamasāvṛtā sarvārthān viparītāḿś ca buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.32 That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be irreligion,...

dhṛtyā yayā dhārayate manaḥ-prāṇendriya-kriyāḥ yogenāvyabhicāriṇyā dhṛtiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.33 O son of Pritha, that determination which is unbreakable, which is sustained with...

yayā tu dharma-kāmārthān dhṛtyā dhārayate ’rjuna prasańgena phalākāńkṣī dhṛtiḥ sā pārtha rājasī Translation of Bhagavad Gita 18.34 But that determination by which one holds fast to fruitive results in religion, economic...