Bhagavad Gita 18.31
यया धर्ममधर्मं च कार्यं चाकार्यमेव च। अयथावत्प्रजानाति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ राजसी।।18.31।।
yayā dharmam adharmaṃ ca kāryaṃ cākāryam eva ca . ayathāvat prajānāti buddhiḥ sā pārtha rājasī .18.31.
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- yayā
- by which (intellect)
- dharmam
- righteousness/duty
- adharmam
- unrighteousness/non-duty
- ca
- and
- kāryam
- what ought to be done
- ca akāryam
- and what ought not to be done
- eva
- indeed (emphasis)
- ca
- and
- ayathāvat
- incorrectly/not as it truly is
- prajānāti
- understands/discerns
- buddhiḥ
- intellect/understanding
- sā
- that
- pārtha
- O son of Pritha (Arjuna)
- rājasī
- of the nature of rajas (passion)
Commentary
31. That by which one wrongly understands dharma and a-dharrna, and also what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, that intellect, O Partha, is Rajasic.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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