Sanskrit · Devanagari
सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः कर्मणि भारत। ज्ञानमावृत्य तु तमः प्रमादे सञ्जयत्युत ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
sattvaṃ sukhe sañjayati rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata jñānamāvṛtya tu tamaḥ pramāde sañjayatyuta
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Goodness unites (the self) with pleasure passion, O descendant of Bharata! with action and darkness with heedlessness, after shrouding up knowledge.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।14.9।। --,सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति संश्लेषयति? रजः कर्मणि हे भारत सञ्जयति इति अनुवर्तते। ज्ञानं सत्त्वकृतं विवेकम् आवृत्य आच्छाद्य तु तमः स्वेन आवरणात्मना प्रमादे सञ्जयति उत प्रमादः नाम प्राप्तकर्तव्याकरणम्।।उक्तं कार्यं कदा कुर्वन्ति गुणा इति उच्यते --,
2cc5563e34fd…Rāmānuja
14.9 Sattva mainly attaches one to pleasure. Rajas mainly attaches one to actions. But Tamas, veiling knowledge of true things and being the cause of false knowledge, mainly attaches one to actions which are contrary to those which ought to be done. The Sattva and other alities evolve from the nature of Prakrti, developed into the form of the body. Owing to this fact that they have evolved out of the nature of Prakrti, they always co-exist in bodies at all time. How, then, can they cause effects which are mutually contrary? He replies:
bed64bdac84f…Swami Sivananda
14.9 सत्त्वम् purity? सुखे to happiness? सञ्जयति attaches? रजः active force? कर्मणि to action? भारत O Bharata? ज्ञानम् knowledge? आवृत्य shrouding? तु verily? तमः inertia? प्रमादे to heedlessness? सञ्जयति attaches? उत but.Commentary Just as a dark cloud enshrouds the sun? so also Tamas envelops knowledge or the light of the Self. Tamas creates an attachment for heedlessness? that is? ignorance or forgetfulness of duty or the nonperformance of necessary (obligatory) duties.
5bf2e5a06a3f…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.