14.13 Darkness as the sign Krishna speaks
अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च
तमस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरुनन्दन
aprakāśho ’pravṛittiśh cha pramādo moha eva cha
tamasy etāni jāyante vivṛiddhe kuru-nandana
Darkness, inactivity, heedlessness and delusion arise when inertia has grown strong, Arjuna.
Explanation
The signs of inertia.
Darkness, inactivity, heedlessness, delusion. The shortest of the three lists, and the only one with no upside in it.
Worth pairing with 14.8: inertia binds by covering over. So its signs are hardest to read from inside, because the faculty that would read them is the thing being covered.
Word by word
- aprakāśhaḥ
- nescience
- apravṛittiḥ
- inertia
- cha
- and
- pramādaḥ
- negligence
- mohaḥ
- delusion
- eva
- indeed
- cha
- also
- tamasi
- mode of ignorance
- etāni
- these
- jāyante
- manifest
- vivṛiddhe
- when dominates
- kuru-nandana
- the joy of the Kurus, Arjun
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