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Chapter 18 · Verse 31 · Moksha Sanyaas Yoga

Bhagavad Gita 18.31

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Sanskrit

यया धर्ममधर्मं च कार्यं चाकार्यमेव च।अयथावत्प्रजानाति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ राजसी।।18.31।।

Transliteration

yayā dharmam adharmaṁ cha kāryaṁ chākāryam eva cha ayathāvat prajānāti buddhiḥ sā pārtha rājasī

Word by Word

yayā by which
dharmam righteousness
adharmam unrighteousness
cha and
kāryam right conduct
cha and
akāryam wrong conduct
eva certainly
cha and
ayathā-vat confused
prajānāti distinguish
buddhiḥ intellect
that
pārtha Arjun, the son of Pritha
rājasī in the mode of passion
Simplified Perspective

Krishna reveals the rajasic intellect—passionate, restless, caught between opposing forces—unable to discern dharma from adharma with clarity. This mind mistakes right action for wrong, confusion for conviction, because it is driven by desire and ego rather than wisdom.

When your intellect serves your appetites instead of truth, you become a prisoner of your own contradictions. In modern life, this is the CEO who confuses profit with purpose, the activist who mistakes ideology for integrity—we all live moments of rajasic blindness until we turn our intelligence toward what is genuinely true.

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Bhagavad Gita 18.31 — BG 18.31

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