Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Tamas

तमस् · tamas

inertia; darkness; dullness

The quality of heaviness and obscurity. Tamas shows itself as confusion, laziness, neglect and too much sleep, and binds by covering over understanding. An act done in delusion, without regard for consequences or for harm to others, is of tamas. It is the hardest of the three to notice from the inside.

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Bhagavad Gita 14.8 · Bhagavad Gita 14.13 · Bhagavad Gita 14.17 · Bhagavad Gita 18.25