Moksha-samnyasa Yoga

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31. That by which one wrongly understands Dharma and Adharma and also what ought

to be done and what ought not to be done, that intellect, O Partha, is Rajasic.

 

32. That which, enveloped in darkness, sees Adharma as Dharma and all things

perverted, that intellect, O Partha, is Tamasic.

 

33. The firmness which is ever accompanied by Yoga and by which the activities

of thought, of life-breaths and sense-organs, O Partha, are held fast, such a

firmness is Sattvic.

 

34. But the firmness with which one holds fast to Dharma and pleasures and

wealth, desirous of the fruit of each on its occasion, that firmness, O Partha,

is Rajasic.

 

35. That with which a stupid man does not give up sleep, fear, grief, depression

and lust, that firmness, O Partha, is Tamasic.

 

36. And now hear from Me - O lord of the Bharatas - of the threefold pleasure,

in which one delights by practice and surely comes to the end of pain.

 

37. That which is like poison at first, at the end, like nectar that pleasure is

declared to be Sattvic, born of the purity of one's own mind.

 

38. That pleasure which arises from the contact of the sense-organ with the

object, at first like nectar, in the end like poison, that is declared to be

Rajasic.

 

39. The pleasure which at first and in the sequel is delusive of the self,

arising from sleep, indolence and heedlessness, that pleasure is declared to be

Tamasic.

 

40. There is no being on earth, or again in heaven among the Devas, that can be

free from these three gunas born of Prakriti.

 

to be continued...