Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 32
अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसावृता । सर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी
adharmaṃ dharmamiti yā manyate tamasāvṛtā | sarvārthānviparītāṃśca buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī
Translation
That which, enveloped in darkness, sees adharma as dharma and all things perverted, that intellect, O Pārtha, is Tāmasic.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- adharmam
- wrong
- dharmam
- right
- iti
- thus
- yā
- which
- manyate
- thinks
- tamasā
- with darkness
- āvṛtā
- covered
- sarvārthān
- all things
- viparītān
- perverted
- ca
- and
- buddhiḥ
- reason
- sā
- that
- pārtha
- O Pārtha
- tāmasī
- tāmasic
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
It takes quite a perverted view of all things to be known.