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Bhagavad Gita 18.35

यया स्वप्नं भयं शोकं विषादं मदमेव च।न विमुञ्चति दुर्मेधा धृतिः सा पार्थ तामसी॥

yayā svapnaṃ bhayaṃ śokaṃ viṣādaṃ madameva ca |na vimuñcati durmedhā dhṛtiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī ||

That firmness, O Arjuna, by which a stupid man does not abandon sleep, fear, grief, despair, and conceit, is Tamasic.

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

And that which clings perversely to false idealism, fear, grief, despair, and vanity is the product of ignorance.

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.