# Bhagavad Gita 18.21

**Canonical reference:** `gita.18.21`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

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

## IAST

pṛthaktvena tu yajjñānaṃ nānābhāvānpṛthagvidhān
vetti sarveṣu bhūteṣu tajjñānaṃ viddhi rājasam

## English translation — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Know that knowledge to be passionate which is (based) on distinctions (between different entities) which sees in all things various entities of different kinds. And that is described as dark

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