Verse 18.31

Verse 18.31: “By which Dharma (Righteousness) and Adharma (Unrighteousness), what is proper to do and what is not proper to do, one discerns, (but) not as these actually are; that intellect, O Son of Pritha, is Rajas-dominated. (718)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

The mixture of milk and water is (holds good) only in the region (case) of herons: There is no distinction such as day and night with one blind; the black bee which devours honey in the flowers, also carves the wood, and its state as blackbee is not lost. In that way the (Rajas) intellect deals in actions without discriminating between righteous as also religious acts and unrighteous as also irreligious acts. One taking (purchasing) pearls with eyes shut up can hardly secure the best ones. It comes to his lot to get such as are otherwise than good. Normally such (Rajas) intellect mixes together desirable and undesirable actions, the undesirable ones are left out only if by chance they are not forthcoming on the spot; and this intellect is Rajas-dominated one. This intellect does all actions without looking if they are pure or impure, in the way one should go on extending invitations (to some ceremony) wholesale without considering the worthiness or otherwise (for being invited) of the invitees.