Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 49-5. - Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= ========================================================================= Wednesday, September 21, 2022. 07:00. Discourse 49: The Eighteenth Chapter Continues – Types of Understanding, Determination and Happiness-5. ======================================================================== Yayā svapnaṁ bhayaṁ śokaṁ viṣādaṁ madam eva ca, na vimuñcati durmedhā dhṛtiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī (18.35): Tamasic determination or will is filled with sleepiness, fear, grief, despondency, pride, and a deluded state of thinking. These are qualities of a tamasic individual. Durmedhā dhṛtiḥ: A determination that is motivated by a bad or a wrong type of understanding. Mada is a kind of vanity that one feels in oneself. Vishada is despondency. Soka is grief. Bhaya is fear. Svapna is lethargic sleeping or a torpid condition of the mind, which is not inclined to any kind of activity. If this is the characteristic of a per...