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Bhagavad Gita 14.17

सत्त्वात्सञ्जायते ज्ञानं रजसो लोभ एव च।प्रमादमोहौ तमसो भवतोऽज्ञानमेव च॥

sattvātsañjāyate jñānaṃ rajaso lobha eva ca |pramādamohau tamaso bhavato'jñānameva ca ||

From Sattva arises knowledge, and greed from Rajas; heedlessness and delusion arise from Tamas, and also ignorance.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Purity engenders wisdom, passion avarice, and ignorance folly, infatuation, and darkness.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 14.17 · SatsangVidya