Shrimad Bhagavad-gita
by Narayana Gosvami | 2013 | 327,105 words
The Bhagavad-gita Verse 14.17, English translation, including the Vaishnava commentaries Sarartha-varsini-tika, Prakashika-vritti and Rasika-ranjana (excerpts). This is verse Verse 14.17 from the chapter 14 called “Guna-traya-vibhaga-yoga (Yoga through transcending the three modes of Material Nature)”
Verse 14.17
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 14.17:
सत्त्वात् सञ्जायते ज्ञानं रजसो लोभ एव च ।
प्रमाद-मोहौ तमसो भवतोऽज्ञानम् एव च ॥ १७ ॥sattvāt sañjāyate jñānaṃ rajaso lobha eva ca |
pramāda-mohau tamaso bhavato'jñānam eva ca || 17 ||sattvāt–from the mode of goodness; sañjāyate–is born; jñānam–know-ledge; rajasaḥ–from the mode of passion; lobhaḥ–greed; eva–certainly; ca–and; pramāda-mohau–madness and delusion; tamasaḥ–from the quality of darkness (ignorance); bhavataḥ–become manifest; ajñānam–ignorance; eva ca–as well as.
Knowledge is born from the mode of goodness, while the mode of passion gives rise to greed. Carelessness, delusion and ignorance are the products of the mode of ignorance.
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