Chapter 17, Slok 19
🗣 Speaker: zrIbhagavAnBG 17.19
Original Verse
mUDhagrAheNAtmano yatpIDayA kriyate tapaH | parasyotsAdanArthaM vA tattAmasamudAhRtam ||17-19||
Transliteration
mūḍhagrāheṇātmano yatpīḍayā kriyate tapaḥ . parasyotsādanārthaṃ vā tattāmasamudāhṛtam ||17-19||
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Swami Adidevananda
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Translation
17.19 That austerity which is practised from deluded notions by means of self-torture or in order to injure another is said to be Tamasika.