BG 14.13
Darkness, stagnation, negligence, and delusion, all arise when ignorance prevails.
तमस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरुनन्दन
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aprakāśho — ignorance, mental incapacity
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’pravṛittiśh — inertia
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cha — also
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pramādo — negligence
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moha — delusion
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eva — indeed
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cha — also
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tamasy — mode of ignorance
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etāni — these
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jāyante — manifest
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vivṛiddhe — when dominates
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kuru-nandana — Arjuna
Epithet for Arjuna as "joy of the Kuru clan"-
kuru — Kuru
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nandana — joy of
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When knowledge illuminates forth from every gateway of the body, one should know that purity has prevailed. Greed, restlessness, agitation, and craving, are all due to the dominance of passion. Darkness, stagnation, negligence, and delusion, all arise when ignorance prevails.
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The pleasure which deludes the self and arises from sleep, laziness, and inadvertence, is born of ignorance.
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