Chapter 18, Verse 39
यदग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनमात्मनः। निद्रालस्यप्रमादोत्थं तत्तामसमुदाहृतम्।।18.39।।
yadagre cānubandhe ca sukhaṃ mohanamātmanaḥ. nidrālasyapramādotthaṃ tattāmasamudāhṛtam.18.39.
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- yat
- which
- agre
- in the beginning
- ca
- and
- anubandhe
- in the consequence/end
- ca
- and
- sukham
- happiness
- mohanam
- delusive
- ātmanaḥ
- of the self
- nidrā
- sleep
- ālasya
- laziness
- pramāda
- heedlessness/negligence
- uttham
- arising from
- tat
- that
- tāmasam
- of the nature of tamas (dark/ignorant)
- udāhṛtam
- is declared/said to be
Commentary
39. The pleasure which at first and in the sequel is delusive of the self, arising from sleep, indolence, and heedlessness, that pleasure is declared to be Tamasic.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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