Bhagavad Gita 14.13
अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च। तमस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरुनन्दन।।14.13।।
aprakāśo'pravṛttiśca pramādo moha eva ca. tamasyetāni jāyante vivṛddhe kurunandana৷৷14.13৷৷
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- अप्रकाशः
- non-illumination (lack of light/clarity, darkness of understanding)
- अप्रवृत्तिः
- inactivity, disinclination to act
- च
- and
- प्रमादः
- negligence, carelessness
- मोहः
- delusion, confusion
- एव
- indeed, certainly
- च
- and
- तमसि
- in tamas (the mode of darkness/ignorance)
- एतानि
- these (things)
- जायन्ते
- arise, are born
- विवृद्धे
- when it has increased/become predominant
- कुरुनन्दन
- O descendant of Kuru (Arjuna)
Commentary
13. Darkness, heedlessness, inertness, and error, — these arise when Tamas is predominant, O descendant of Kuru.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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