Chapter 14, Slok 8
🗣 Speaker: zrIbhagavAnBG 14.8
Original Verse
tamastvajJAnajaM viddhi mohanaM sarvadehinAm | pramAdAlasyanidrAbhistannibadhnAti bhArata ||14-8||
Transliteration
tamastvajñānajaṃ viddhi mohanaṃ sarvadehinām . pramādālasyanidrābhistannibadhnāti bhārata ||14-8||
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Swami Adidevananda
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Translation
14.8 Know that Tamas is born of false knowledge and deludes all embodied selves. It binds, O Arjuna, with negligence, indolence and sleep.