| 28. Unsteady, vulgar,
unbending, deceptive, wicked, indolent, desponding, and procrastinating (such)
an agent is said to be Tamasic.Vulgar: quite uncultured in intellect (buddhi),
who is like a child. Unbending: not bowing like a stick to anybody. Deceptive:
concealing his real power. Wicked: setting others at variance with each other.
Indolent: not doing even what ought to be done. Desponding: always depressed
in spirit. Procrastinating: postponing duties too long, always sluggish, not
doing even in a month what ought to be done today or tomorrow. Intellect and
Firmness are threefold according to gunas. The threefold division of intellect
and firmness according to qualities, about to be taught fully and distinctively
(by Me), hear thou, O Dhananjaya. Qualities: Gunas, such as Sattva. The first
half of the verse contains ,in an aphoristic form what is going to be taught.
Dhananjaya: the conqueror of wealth. Arjuna is so called because he acquired
much wealthhuman and divine, material and spiritual; during his tour of conquest
through the four quarters of the earth.Sattvic Intellect. |
