सत्त्वात्सञ्जायते ज्ञानं रजसो लोभ एव च ।
प्रमादमोहौ तमसो भवतोऽज्ञानमेव च ॥
प्रमादमोहौ तमसो भवतोऽज्ञानमेव च ॥
हिन्दी अनुवाद
सत्त्वगुणसे ज्ञान और रजोगुणसे लोभ आदि ही उत्पन्न होते हैं तमोगुणसे प्रमाद, मोह एवं अज्ञान भी उत्पन्न होता है ॥
English
From sattva comes knowledge; from rajas, greed; from tamas, negligence, delusion, and ignorance.
श्लोक का अर्थ
A clear, balanced nature gives rise to understanding. Restless nature produces greed. Heavy, dull nature produces carelessness, delusion, and ignorance.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On Kurukshetra, Krishna keeps explaining the three gunas to Arjuna, who is frozen before battle. After showing how they shape rebirth and action, Krishna now names their inner effects: sattva brings knowledge, rajas brings greed, and tamas brings confusion.
आज के संदर्भ में
You open your phone at 1 a.m. and feel the pull to keep scrolling, buying, comparing, numbing. The verse helps you name the force behind the spiral instead of calling it 'just me.'
सार
You can stop treating every bad impulse as random and start seeing what kind of energy is feeding it.
शब्दार्थ
सत्त्वात् (from sattva) / सञ्जायते (is born) / ज्ञानम् (knowledge) / रजसः (from rajas) / लोभः (greed) / एव (indeed) / च (and) / प्रमादमोहौ (negligence and delusion) / तमसः (from tamas) / भवन्ति (arise) / अज्ञानम् (ignorance) / एव (indeed) / च (and)
यह श्लोक भगवद् गीता अध्याय 14: गुणत्रय विभाग योग — त्रिगुण-विभाग का योग का भाग है, जिसमें कुल 27 श्लोक हैं।
संबंधित विषय: gunas (47 श्लोक), sattva (26 श्लोक), rajas (21 श्लोक)