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Bhagavad Gita 14.9

सत्त्वं सुखे सञ्जयति रजः कर्मणि भारत।ज्ञानमावृत्य तु तमः प्रमादे सञ्जयत्युत॥

sattvaṃ sukhe sañjayati rajaḥ karmaṇi bhārata |jñānamāvṛtya tu tamaḥ pramāde sañjayatyuta ||

Sattva attaches to happiness, Rajas to action, O Arjuna, while Tamas, verily shrouding knowledge, attaches to heedlessness.

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

Purity brings happiness, passion brings commotion, and ignorance, which obscures wisdom, leads to a life of failure.

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 14.9 · SatsangVidya