Chapter 18 · Verse 32 · Moksha Sanyaas Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 18.32
Sanskrit
अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसाऽऽवृता।सर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी।।18.32।।
Transliteration
adharmaṁ dharmam iti yā manyate tamasāvṛitā sarvārthān viparītānśh cha buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī
Word by Word
When the intellect is covered by tamas—the darkness of ignorance—it cannot distinguish between dharma and adharma, between what upholds truth and what destroys it. The tamasic mind sees everything inverted: it calls injustice justice, cruelty kindness, and bondage freedom.
This is the deepest spiritual blindness, for it robs us of the capacity to choose wisely. In our modern world, we encounter this constantly when we rationalize harm as necessity, mistake convenience for righteousness, or follow crowds into actions that contradict our deepest knowing.
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Bhagavad Gita 18.32 — BG 18.32
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