Chapter 18, Verse 22
यत्तु कृत्स्नवदेकस्मिन्कार्ये सक्तमहैतुकम्। अतत्त्वार्थवदल्पं च तत्तामसमुदाहृतम्।।18.22।।
yattu kṛtsnavadekasminkārye saktamahaitukam| atattvārthavadalpaṃ ca tattāmasamudāhṛtam||18.22||
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- yat
- which (knowledge)
- tu
- but
- kṛtsna-vat
- as if the whole/entire
- ekasmin
- in one (single thing)
- kārye
- effect/object
- saktam
- attached/clinging
- ahaitukam
- without reason, groundless
- atattva-artha-vat
- without regard for the real truth/meaning
- alpam
- trivial, petty
- ca
- and
- tat
- that (knowledge)
- tāmasam
- belonging to tamas (darkness/ignorance)
- udāhṛtam
- is declared/called
Commentary
22. Bat that which clings to one single effect as if it were all, without reason, having no real object, and narrow, that is declared to be Tama- sic.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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yat
tu
kṛtsna-vat
ekasmin
kārye
saktam
ahaitukam
atattva-artha-vat
alpam
ca
tat
tāmasam
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