अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसावृता | सर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी ||१८-३२||
adharmaṃ dharmamiti yā manyate tamasāvṛtā . sarvārthānviparītāṃśca buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī ||18-32||
- adharmam
- irreligion
- dharmam
- religion
- iti
- thus
- yā
- which
- manyate
- thinks
- tamasā
- by illusion
- āvṛtā
- covered
- sarva-arthān
- all things
- viparītān
- in the wrong direction
- ca
- also
- buddhiḥ
- intelligence
- sā
- that
- pārtha
- O son of Pṛthā
- tāmasī
- in the mode of ignorance
That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness, and strives always in the wrong direction, O Pārtha, is in the mode of ignorance.