Shloka 39
यदग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनमात्मन: । निद्रालस्यप्रमादोत्थं तत्तामसमुदाह्तम्,जो सुख भोगकालमें तथा परिणाममें भी आत्माको मोहित करनेवाला है, वह निद्रा, आलस्य और प्रमादसे उत्पन्न सुखःई तामस कहा गया है
yad agre cānubandhe ca sukhaṁ mohanam ātmanaḥ | nidrālasyapramādotthaṁ tat tāmasam udāhṛtam ||
That pleasure which, both at the beginning and in its aftermath, deludes the self—arising from sleep, indolence, and heedlessness—is declared to be tāmasic.
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Pleasure that begins and ends in delusion—born of sleep, laziness, and heedlessness—is tāmasic; it undermines clarity and ethical responsibility, so it should be recognized and restrained.
In the teaching on the three guṇas and their effects, the speaker classifies kinds of happiness; here, the verse identifies the tamasic form as the comfort of inertia and negligence that clouds judgment.