एक मूल शिक्षा · चिंतनशील भाव · थोड़ा संदर्भ सहायक
“Confusion binds most through laziness, not force.”
हे भरतवंशी अर्जुन सम्पूर्ण देहधारियोंको मोहित करनेवाले तमोगुणको तुम अज्ञानसे उत्पन्न होनेवाला समझो । वह प्रमाद, आलस्य और निद्राके द्वारा देहधारियोंको बाँधता है ॥
श्लोक क्रम में — हर संस्कृत शब्द और नीचे उसका अर्थ। किसी शब्द पर टैप करके उसे देखें।
शब्दशःdarkness/inertia · indeed · born of ignorance · know · deluding · of all embodied beings · through heedlessness, laziness, and sleep · that · binds · Arjuna
Tamas is the force of confusion and inertia. It clouds judgment and traps people through carelessness, laziness, and sleepiness.
यह श्लोक Krishna द्वारा कहा गया है, कुरुक्षेत्र की भूमि पर, अध्याय "गुणत्रय विभाग योग" में।
श्लोक 8 भगवद् गीता के 14वें अध्याय में है — गुणत्रय विभाग योग। इस अध्याय में कुल 27 श्लोक हैं।
A hostel room where the curtains stay shut, laundry piles up and classes get skipped for a week shows what Krishna describes. Darkness, inertia, negligence and confusion grow together, and opening the curtain is a start.
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Tamas is born of ignorance, deludes every embodied being, and binds through heedlessness, laziness and sleep.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
Tamas is the force of confusion and inertia. It clouds judgment and traps people through carelessness, laziness, and sleepiness.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
Krishna teaches Arjuna, and the three gunas are being explained one by one. After describing sattva and rajas, he now names tamas as the force that clouds living beings and binds them through dullness.
आज के जीवन में महत्व
A hostel room where the curtains stay shut, laundry piles up and classes get skipped for a week shows what Krishna describes. Darkness, inertia, negligence and confusion grow together, and opening the curtain is a start.
“You can spot what drags you down by watching what dulls your mind and delays your action.”
संबंधित विषय: tamas (18 श्लोक)