Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18 Verse 28
भगवद् गीता अध्याय 18 श्लोक 28

अयुक्तः प्राकृतः स्तब्धः शठो नैष्कृतिकोऽलसः।
विषादी दीर्घसूत्री च कर्ता तामस उच्यते।।18.28।।



English Translation - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
18.28. The agent, who does not exert, is vulgar, obstinate and deceitful; who is a man of wickedness and is lazy, sorrowful, and procrastinating - that agent is said to be of the Tamas (Strand).


English Translation of Commentary  - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
18.26-28 Muktasangah etc. upto  Tamasa ucyate.  He who does not make speech of egoism :  He who does not claim  I am the agent i.e., he who is different from the one who claims so by natural inclination, or claims as such with an intention that I should do so,   or claims so in an efficient manner.  This nini (suffix employed in anahamvadi) does not prohibit for a Yogin, the speech  I do under the influence of the cover of the mundane life.  Who is overpowered by joy and grief : i.e., at the time of success and failure  [respectively].  Wickedness :  cruelty.


Transliteration Bhagavad Gita 18.28Ayuktah praakritah stabdhah shatho naishkritiko’lasah;
Vishaadee deerghasootree cha kartaa taamasa uchyate.


Word Meanings Bhagavad Gita 18.28ayuktaḥ—undisciplined; prākṛitaḥ—vulgar; stabdhaḥ—obstinate; śhaṭhaḥ—cunning; naiṣhkṛitikaḥ—dishonest or vile; alasaḥ—slothful; viṣhādī—unhappy and morose; dīrgha-sūtrī—procrastinating; cha—and; kartā—performer; tāmasaḥ—in the mode of ignorance; uchyate—is said to be