TEXT 22

Tekst

Text

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

Synonyms

yat — den, som; tu — men; kṛtsna-vat — som et og alt; ekasmin — til et bestemt; kārye — arbejde; saktam — tilknyttet; ahaitukam — uden årsag; atattva-artha-vat — uden viden om virkeligheden; alpam — meget sparsom; ca — og; tat — den; tāmasam — i mørkets kvalitet; udāhṛtam — siges at være.

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.

Translation

Og den meget sparsomme viden, hvor der intet kendskab er til sandheden, men man blot er knyttet til en bestemt slags arbejde, som var det et og alt, siges at være i mørkets kvalitet.

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.

Purport

FORKLARING: Det almindelige menneskes “viden” er altid i mørkets eller uvidenhedens kvalitet, eftersom alle betingede levende væsener bliver født i uvidenhedens kvalitet. Den, der ikke får viden fra autoriteterne eller skrifterne, har kundskab, der begrænser sig til kroppen. En sådan person bekymrer sig ikke om at handle ifølge skrifternes vejledning. For ham er Gud penge, og viden vil sige at tilfredsstille kropslige behov. Den slags viden har ingen forbindelse med den Absolutte Sandhed. Den er mere eller mindre som almindelige dyrs viden, nemlig viden om at spise, sove, forsvare sig og parre sig. Sådan en viden beskrives her som produkt af mørkets kvalitet. Viden om sjælen ud over denne krop kaldes med andre ord for viden i godhedens kvalitet, viden, der frembringer mange teorier og doktriner igennem verdslig logik og intellektuel spekulation, er produkt af lidenskabens kvalitet, og viden, der kun drejer sig om at holde kroppen komfortabel, siges at være i uvidenhedens kvalitet.

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.