The Gita according to Gandhi 377

The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

DISCOURCE 18 28. That doer is called tamasa who is undisciplined, vulgar, stubborn, knavish, spiteful, indolent, woebegone, and dilatory. 29. Hear now, O Dhananjaya, detailed fully and severally, the threefold division of understanding and will, according to their gunas. 30. That understanding, O Partha, is sattvika which knows action from inaction, what ought to be done from what ought not to be done, fear from fearlessness and bondage from release. 31. That understanding, O Partha, is rajasa, which decides erroneously between right and wrong, between what ought to be done and what ought not to be done. 32. That understanding, O Partha, is tamasa, which, shrouded in darkness, thinks wrong to be right and mistakes everything for its reverse.