Chapter 14 · Verse 13 · Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 14.13
Sanskrit
अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च।तमस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरुनन्दन।।14.13।।
Transliteration
aprakāśho ’pravṛittiśh cha pramādo moha eva cha tamasy etāni jāyante vivṛiddhe kuru-nandana
In plain words
You know the feeling—when the fog rolls in and you can't see your way forward, when everything feels heavy and pointless, when you've stopped trying because trying feels pointless. Krishna says: that fog is not your fate, it's what happens when you stop tending the light inside you. Even one small act of attention, one moment of turning back toward what's true, breaks the spell.
Word by Word
When tamas—the mode of ignorance—grows dominant in consciousness, it births a quartet of spiritual poisons: the inability to perceive truth, the paralysis of inertia, the fog of negligence, and delusion that mistakes bondage for freedom. This is not external punishment but the natural consequence of turning away from light; when we cease to tend the lamp of awareness, darkness spreads through our own being.
In modern life, this manifests as the slow erosion of clarity through distraction, the heaviness that comes from avoiding our deepest responsibilities, and the self-deception that keeps us stuck in patterns we claim we cannot change.
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Bhagavad Gita 14.13 — BG 14.13
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