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The ego claims false ownership of action

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अयुक्तः प्राकृतः स्तब्धः शठो नैष्कृतिकोऽलसः ।विषादी दीर्घसूत्री च कर्ता तामस उच्यते ॥

One who acts with a mechanical mind (who does not put himself really into the work), is stupid, obstinate, cunning, insolent, lazy, easily depressed, procrastinating, that doer is called tamasic.

Gītā 18·28

From The Experiential Architecture · After Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita · incarnateword.in