Chapter 18, Verse 32
अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसाऽऽवृता। सर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी।।18.32।।
adharmaṃ dharmam iti yā manyate tamasā''vṛtā| sarvārthān viparītāṃś ca buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī||18.32||
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- adharmam
- unrighteousness/wrong
- dharmam
- righteousness/right
- iti
- thus (quotation marker)
- yā
- which (feminine, referring to buddhi/intellect)
- manyate
- thinks, considers, regards
- tamasā
- by darkness, by ignorance
- āvṛtā
- covered, enveloped, obscured
- sarva-arthān
- all things, all objects/purposes
- viparītān
- reversed, inverted, contrary (to their true nature)
- ca
- and
- buddhiḥ
- intellect, understanding, discernment
- sā
- that (feminine, referring to buddhi)
- pārtha
- O son of Pritha (Arjuna)
- tāmasī
- of the nature of tamas, born of darkness/ignorance
Commentary
32. That which, enveloped in darkness, sees adharma as dharma and all things perverted, that intellect, O Partha, is Tamasic.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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