BG - 18.39

यदग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनमात्मनः।निद्रालस्यप्रमादोत्थं तत्तामसमुदाहृतम्।।18.39।।

yad agre chānubandhe cha sukhaṁ mohanam ātmanaḥ nidrālasya-pramādotthaṁ tat tāmasam udāhṛitam

• yat - which
• agre - from beginning
• cha - and
• anubandhe - to end
• cha - and
• sukham - happiness
• mohanam - illusory
• ātmanaḥ - of the self
• nidrā - sleep
• ālasya - indolence
• pramāda - negligence
• uttham - derived from
• tat - that
• tāmasam - in the mode of ignorance
• udāhṛitam - is said to be

Translation

That happiness which at first, as well as in the end, deludes the self, and which arises from sleep, indolence, and heedlessness—that is declared to be Tamasic.

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