Display
Devanagari is shown only when this page stored it. Harvard-Kyoto and ASCII are generated from the IAST verse.
Vanisource / Original texts
Bhagavad-gītā 18.25
DonateSave this passage to keep a private note on this device. Notes are not sent to Vedawiki.
Cite
Source navigation
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 25
- अनुबन्धं क्षयं हिंसामनपेक्ष्य च पौरुषम् ।
- मोहादारभ्यते कर्म यत्तत्तामसमुच्यते ॥२५॥
- anubandhaṁ kṣayaṁ hiṁsām
- anapekṣya ca pauruṣam
- mohād ārabhyate karma
- yat tat tāmasam ucyate
anubandhamof future bondage — of future bondage; kṣayamdestruction — destruction; hiṁsāmand distress to others — and distress to others; anapekṣyawithout considering the consequences — without considering the consequences; caalso — also; pauruṣamself-sanctioned — self-sanctioned; mohātby illusion — by illusion; ārabhyateis begun — is begun; karmawork — work; yatwhich — which; tatthat — that; tāmasamin the mode of ignorance — in the mode of ignorance; ucyateis said to be — is said to be.
That action performed in illusion, in disregard of scriptural injunctions, and without concern for future bondage or for violence or distress caused to others is said to be in the mode of ignorance.
One has to give account of one's actions to the state or to the agents of the Supreme Lord called the Yamadūtas. Irresponsible work is destructive because it destroys the regulative principles of scriptural injunction. It is often based on violence and is distressing to other living entities. Such irresponsible work is carried out in the light of one's personal experience. This is called illusion. And all such illusory work is a product of the mode of ignorance.