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Bhagavad-gītā 18.28
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 28
- अयुक्तः प्राकृतः स्तब्धः शठो नैष्कृतिकोऽलसः ।
- विषादी दीर्घसूत्री च कर्ता तामस उच्यते ॥२८॥
- ayuktaḥ prākṛtaḥ stabdhaḥ
- śaṭho naiṣkṛtiko 'lasaḥ
- viṣādī dīrgha-sūtrī ca
- kartā tāmasa ucyate
ayuktaḥnot referring to the scriptural injunctions — not referring to the scriptural injunctions; prākṛtaḥmaterialistic — materialistic; stabdhaḥobstinate — obstinate; śaṭhaḥdeceitful — deceitful; naiṣkṛtikaḥexpert in insulting others — expert in insulting others; alasaḥlazy — lazy; viṣādīmorose — morose; dīrghaprocrastinating-sūtrīprocrastinating — procrastinating; caalso — also; kartāworker — worker; tāmasaḥin the mode of ignorance — in the mode of ignorance; ucyateis said to be — is said to be.
The worker who is always engaged in work against the injunctions of the scripture, who is materialistic, obstinate, cheating and expert in insulting others, and who is lazy, always morose and procrastinating is said to be a worker in the mode of ignorance.
In the scriptural injunctions we find what sort of work should be performed and what sort of work should not be performed. Those who do not care for those injunctions engage in work not to be done, and such persons are generally materialistic. They work according to the modes of nature, not according to the injunctions of the scripture. Such workers are not very gentle, and generally they are always cunning and expert in insulting others. They are very lazy; even though they have some duty, they do not do it properly, and they put it aside to be done later on. Therefore they appear to be morose. They procrastinate; anything which can be done in an hour they drag on for years. Such workers are situated in the mode of ignorance.