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Verse 18·21

The confusion of the tamasic person

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पृथक्त्वेन तु यज्ज्ञानं नानाभावान्पृथग्विधान् ।वेत्ति सर्वेषु भूतेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि राजसम् ॥

pṛthaktvena tu yajjñānaṃ nānābhāvānpṛthagvidhānvetti sarveṣu bhūteṣu tajjñānaṃ viddhi rājasam

But that knowledge which sees the multiplicity of things only in their separateness and variety of operation in all these existences, that knowledge know thou as rajasic.

Gītā 18·21

This knowing is a jumble of sections of knowledge, often inconsistent knowledge, put forcefully together by the mind in order to make some kind of pathway through the confusion of our half-knowledge and half-ignorance. Or else it is a restless kinetic multiple action with no firm governing higher ideal and self-possessed law of true light and power within it.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 500

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