Bhagavad Gita
    Chapter 18 · Liberation Through Renunciation

    Verse 22

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 18, Verse 22

    यत्तु कृत्स्नवदेकस्मिन्कार्ये सक्तमहैतुकम्।अतत्त्वार्थवदल्पं च तत्तामसमुदाहृतम्।।18.22।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    yat tu kṛitsna-vad ekasmin kārye saktam ahaitukam atattvārtha-vad alpaṁ cha tat tāmasam udāhṛitam

    Translation

    But that knowledge is declared to be Tamasika which clings to one single act as if it were the whole, which is not based on reason, and which is false and insignificant.
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