Chapter 18 Verse 32 of 78

• adharmaḿ dharmam iti yā
• manyate tamasāvṛtā
• sarvārthān viparītāḿś ca
• buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī

Translation

That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness, and strives always in the wrong direction, O Pārtha, is in the mode of ignorance.

Synonyms

• adharmam

  irreligion

• dharmam

  religion

• iti

  thus

• yā

  which

• manyate

  thinks

• tamasā

  by illusion

• āvṛtā

  covered

• arthān

  all things

• viparītān

  in the wrong direction

• ca

  also

• buddhiḥ

  intelligence

• sā

  that

• pārtha

  O son of Prtha

• tāmasī

  in the mode of ignorance.

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