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TEXT 22

VERŠ 22

Devanagari

Dévanágarí

यत्तु कृत्स्नवदेकस्मिन्कार्ये सक्तमहैतुकम् ।
अतत्त्वार्थवदल्पं च तत्तामसमुदाहृतम् ॥ २२ ॥

Text

Verš

yat tu kṛtsna-vad ekasmin
kārye saktam ahaitukam
atattvārtha-vad alpaṁ ca
tat tāmasam udāhṛtam
yat tu kṛtsna-vad ekasmin
kārye saktam ahaitukam
atattvārtha-vad alpaṁ ca
tat tāmasam udāhṛtam

Synonyms

Synonyma

yat — that which; tu — but; kṛtsna-vat — as all in all; ekasmin — in one; kārye — work; saktam — attached; ahaitukam — without cause; atattva-artha-vat — without knowledge of reality; alpam — very meager; ca — and; tat — that; tāmasam — in the mode of darkness; udāhṛtam — is said to be.

yat — ktoré; tu — ale; kṛtsna-vat — ako všetko; ekasmin — v jednom; kārye — činnosť; saktam — lipnúť; ahaitukam — bez príčiny; atattva-artha-vat — bez poznania skutočnosti; alpam — úplne ničotné; ca — a; tat — to; tāmasam — v kvalite temnoty; udāhṛtam — hovorí sa.

Translation

Překlad

And that knowledge by which one is attached to one kind of work as the all in all, without knowledge of the truth, and which is very meager, is said to be in the mode of darkness.

A poznanie, ktoré človeka púta k jedinému druhu činnosti, akoby bolo všetkým, ktoré je ničotné a bez poznania pravdy, také poznanie náleží do kvality temnoty.

Purport

Význam

The “knowledge” of the common man is always in the mode of darkness or ignorance because every living entity in conditional life is born into the mode of ignorance. One who does not develop knowledge through the authorities or scriptural injunctions has knowledge that is limited to the body. He is not concerned about acting in terms of the directions of scripture. For him God is money, and knowledge means the satisfaction of bodily demands. Such knowledge has no connection with the Absolute Truth. It is more or less like the knowledge of the ordinary animals: the knowledge of eating, sleeping, defending and mating. Such knowledge is described here as the product of the mode of darkness. In other words, knowledge concerning the spirit soul beyond this body is called knowledge in the mode of goodness, knowledge producing many theories and doctrines by dint of mundane logic and mental speculation is the product of the mode of passion, and knowledge concerned only with keeping the body comfortable is said to be in the mode of ignorance.

„Poznanie“ bežného človeka je vždy v kvalite temnoty alebo nevedomosti, pretože každá živá bytosť sa v tejto kvalite nevedomosti rodí. Ten, kto nerozvíja poznanie od autorít alebo zjavených písiem, zostane v poznaní obmedzený na svoje telo. Pre takých ľudí sú peniaze Bohom a poznanie znamená uspokojenie telesných potrieb. Ich poznanie nemá vonkoncom nič spoločné s Absolútnou Pravdou a je viac-menej na úrovni obyčajných zvierat: vedieť „ako sa najesť, vyspať, brániť sa a mať sex“. Tento verš ho radí do kvality temnoty. Inými slovami, poznanie o duši existujúcej mimo tela je v kvalite dobra, poznanie podnecujúce rôzne teórie a doktríny založené na svetskej logike a mentálnej špekulácii je výplodom kvality vášne, a napokon poznanie, ktoré sa zaoberá iba telesným pohodlím, náleží do kvality nevedomosti.