Verse-25
Chapter 18 — Moksha Sanyasa Yoga
Verse 25
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
anubandhaṁ kṣayaṁ hiṁsāmanavekṣya ch pauruṣam
mohādārabhyate karma yattattāmasamucyate
🕉 English Translation
Parinaam, hani pe ho na nazar,
Hinsa va shakti ko na dekh kar.
Moh karma jo shuru hai kiya,
Vahi karma hee toh hai tamas kaha.
📜 Translation
English
The action which is undertaken through ignorance without any regard to consequences, loss, injury or one's capacity is said to be tamasic.
This is a totally distorted form of action. The greatest deformity is the ignorance or delusion arising out of unenlightenment. While it prevails there is no discernment from any angle of what is right and the action in this form gets the title of tamasic.
While performing action the predominating thought should be that what would be the consequence of the action I am undertaking. Many a time it so happens that action performed is not of benefit for oneself nor for any one else. In every form there is only harm. It is neither good for this world. Then how can it be beneficial for the next world? Sometimes for one's comfort and pleasure to give trouble to others, sometimes for satisfying one's taste buds to kill animals, all this is violence. Whatever is one's own capacity or ability to stretch beyond that, one may not have enough physical strength but to take on enmity with someone extremely strong, to extend one's feet beyond one's sheet and later become troubled-all these are the states of tamasic actions. After the analysis of satvic, rajasic, tamasic-the three types of action follow the three distinctions of the doers!